boot: prompt parameters

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Jun 22 17:45:13 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:31 -0400, Derek Yeung wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to put parameters at the boot: prompt so that post install 
> scripts can process it and do appropriate things, instead of multiple 
> configuration files?
> 
> 
> i.e.:
> boot:  ks=http://blah.host.dom/place.cfg parameter1 parameter2 parameter3

Sure, as long as you avoid parameters that are interpreted by the kernel
itself or anaconda. Just parse your parameters from /proc/cmdline
contents in %post or whatever.

	- Panu -




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