obsolete http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

[Felix Miata]

On 2012/05/08 22:31 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

> Where's what dracut wants instead of all it claims is obsolete when I try to
> use what's there for F17 installation via an installed Grub Legacy stanza?
>
> e.g.: Use 'ip=<ip>::<gw>:<nm>[:<dev>]'
>
> Is there an extra ":" in there (a typo?)?
>
> e.g.: "FATAL: Please supply bootdev argument for multiple ip= lines"
>
> What on earth does "bootdev argument" mean? What multiple ip= lines?
>
> Why was dns changed to nameserver? That's 7 extra characters, 233% more, in a
> context with a short character limit.

I finally found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options, but if it 
addresses the needs of an HTTP install initiated by Grub, it's too obtuse for 
me to recognize.

This is the latest result of trying:

FATAL: Don't know how to handle 
'root=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386.os'
...
kernel panic

This is the current basis of edit attempts of the Grub cmdline trying to get 
an installation started:

title Install Fedora 17 - m.u.k.o HTTP (2012/05)
     kernel (hd0,6)/f17inst/vmlinuz 
repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/development/17/i386/os 
ip=192.168.1.2::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0 nameserver=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 
rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 enforcing=0 selinux=0 xdriver=radeon 
root=/dev/ram resolution=1152x864 vga=794 nodmraid nofirewire
     initrd (hd0,6)/f17inst/initrd.img

root= seems to be the missing component, but the doc doesn't seem to tell how 
to figure out what it needs to be to get an installation started with Grub. :-(
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