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

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 00:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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 Where's what dracut wants instead of all it claims is obsolete when I try to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'

Don't use root=. Use repo= or stage2=. You will note that root= is not
listed anywhere on Anaconda_Boot_Options. This is intentional.

> 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. :-(

It's not missing. You should not specify it. I'm not sure about the
network config specification parameters, sorry.
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