Accessing boot: prompt options inside KS script

[dan]

Klaus Steden wrote:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>Is it possible to access the boot: prompt options in the %pre and %post
>>scripts? As in, if on my bootprompt I have:
>>
>>linux ks=http://some.host/some.file -ip=1.2.3.4
>>
>>that I can then use the value of "-ip=" in the kickstart script itself?
>>
> 
> Christian,
> 
> You can access these parameters by reading /proc/cmdline.
> 
> The contents of this file are read-only, and contain all the boot args except
> those that get used (and thus eaten) by the kernel (i.e. initrd=<initrd>
> etc.).
> 
> It'll take a little bit of perl, awk, python, sed, or shell to turn them into
> something useful, but they're there if you need them.
> 
> hth,
> Klaus
> 

Klaus -

That is awesmoe.  I will most definately be using that.

Thanks
-dant