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

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Feb 22 17:22:06 UTC 2012


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. 

kevin
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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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