use escaped semicolon for kernel cmdline whitespace substitution

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/create-boot-floppy b/create-boot-floppy
index 2cb7a87..a6f0a43 100755
--- a/create-boot-floppy
+++ b/create-boot-floppy
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ bootstrapping, and leave the system unmanaged.
 
 If -N, -K, -S options are not given, default values are provided.
 
+To avoid shell interpretation of whitespace in --inst-cmdline use escaped 
+semicolon:
+  To achieve this:
+    console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8
+  write this:
+    console=tty1\;console=ttyS0,115200n8
+
 The script needs ipxe and syslinux to run, and 'sudo' to copy things onto the
 floppy image
 
@@ -97,7 +104,7 @@ function parse_commadline {
       shift
       ;;
     --inst-cmdline)
-      InstCmdLine="${2}"
+      InstCmdLineOpt="--inst-cmdline $(echo ${2} | sed -e 's/;/ /g')"
       shift
       ;;
     *)