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

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 22 17:40:06 UTC 2012


On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:22:06 -0700
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 - easy to revert and low-impact

-sv

> 
> 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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