Freeze break request: update boot.fedoraproject.org for pxe install workaround for f17

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 22 February 2012 10:22, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> To work around bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785815
> we need to pass a root= option to pxe installs for now. This fixes
> things so boot.fedoraproject.org can do installs. Without it you get a
> 'root= not specified' panic.

+1 to change

> kevin
> --
> diff --git a/bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_prerelease.conf
> b/bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_prerelease.conf index 5ed7801..65d1db2 100644
> --- a/bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_prerelease.conf
> +++ b/bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_prerelease.conf
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ label Fedora-17-Branched-i386
>         MENU LABEL Fedora-17-Branched-i386
>         kernel
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> initrd
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/i386/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> +        append
> root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Alpha.RC4/Fedora/i386/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img
> TEXT HELP Selecting this will boot the Fedora 17 Branched i386
> installer. Note that this is a PRE-RELEASE version.
> @@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ label Fedora-17-Branched-x86_64
>         MENU LABEL Fedora-17-Branched-x86_64
>         kernel
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> initrd
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> +        append
> root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Alpha.RC4/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img
> TEXT HELP Selecting this will boot the Fedora 17 Branched x86_64
> installer. Note that this is a PRE-RELEASE version.
>
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