Re: [et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler profile pxelinux text

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Aaron Lippold wrote:

The Linux kernel has a 255 character limit on kernel options. I'm coming up a bit short on the google links to articles on this, though it's a fairly well known item.
Hi,

I like to understand the topic being discussed below. Can someone
point me to some docs.

Thanks,

Aaron

On 6/13/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Caetano, Greg wrote:
> Michael:
>
> I'm doing out of band hardware configuration with automatic chain to a
> RH installation for new bare metal or possible out of band firmware
> updates then reboot to local boot.
>
> The syslinux stanza for the out of band toolkit is:
>
> label toolkit
>   kernel vmlinuz
> append noapic initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=102400
> ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off network=1
> sstk_mount=10.100.100.1:/SSSTK sstk_mount_type=nfs
> sstk_mount_options=ro,nolock sstk_script=/scripts/deploy.sh
>
> Now I just manually update the pxelinux.cfg to get what I'm looking for.
>
> Greg

Excellent, thanks for the explanation and I understand.

So, basically this is a custom upgrade initrd? I can see what it would
take to leave that option off --- it's not difficult.
Perhaps the syntax would be "--kickstart=off" ... This makes sense when
supporting things like memtest too..

--Michael


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