On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 00:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2012/05/08 22:31 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > > > Where's what dracut wants instead of all it claims is obsolete when I try to > > use what's there for F17 installation via an installed Grub Legacy stanza? > > > > e.g.: Use 'ip=<ip>::<gw>:<nm>[:<dev>]' > > > > Is there an extra ":" in there (a typo?)? > > > > e.g.: "FATAL: Please supply bootdev argument for multiple ip= lines" > > > > What on earth does "bootdev argument" mean? What multiple ip= lines? > > > > Why was dns changed to nameserver? That's 7 extra characters, 233% more, in a > > context with a short character limit. > > I finally found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options, but if it > addresses the needs of an HTTP install initiated by Grub, it's too obtuse for > me to recognize. > > This is the latest result of trying: > > FATAL: Don't know how to handle > 'root=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386.os' Don't use root=. Use repo= or stage2=. You will note that root= is not listed anywhere on Anaconda_Boot_Options. This is intentional. > root= seems to be the missing component, but the doc doesn't seem to tell how > to figure out what it needs to be to get an installation started with Grub. :-( It's not missing. You should not specify it. I'm not sure about the network config specification parameters, sorry. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
