/etc/boot/cmdline.txt is no longer used to configure kernel parameters on boot

July 20, 20231 min. read

A recent update to boot-deploy 0.9.x has dropped support for using /etc/boot/cmdline.txt to configure the kernel parameters used on boot. If you are currently using this file to configure kernel parameters, please move these parameters to a new variable named deviceinfo_kernel_cmdline_append in the /etc/deviceinfo file.

For example, if you have the following in /etc/boot/cmdline.txt:

quiet ipv6.disable=1 iomem=relaxed

Then you will want to add the following to /etc/deviceinfo:

deviceinfo_kernel_cmdline_append="quiet ipv6.disable=1 iomem=relaxed"

After this manual migration is performed, it is safe to remove /etc/boot/cmdline.txt.

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