[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler profile pxelinux text

[Michael DeHaan]

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 at redhat.com> 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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