I can't verify (right now) that it's in the man page but: man bootparam > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> et-mgmt-tools mailing list >>> et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> et-mgmt-tools mailing list >> et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools >
