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

[Felix Miata]

On 2012/05/09 11:38 (GMT-000) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 10:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

>>  I'm pretty sure it's just that networking isn't
>>  coming up right. It may well simply be an anaconda bug; I don't know if
>>  we've actually tested the static IP stuff very hard since noloader.

> So, wwoods tells me the dracut syntax is the 'shiny new' way. The
> anaconda syntax should work, but gets translated into the dracut syntax
> and 'there may be problems there'. So, apparently, you should try
> something like this:

> 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::eth0:none nameserver=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 selinux=0 xdriver=radeon resolution=1152x864 vga=794 nodmraid nofirewire

> where eth0 is your interface (may well be em1 or something). Can you try
> that? If that works but the anaconda params don't, we have an anaconda
> bug...

eth0 except in Fedora

Less of the same:
...
[10.011370] sd 2:0:0:3: Attached SCSI generic sg6 type 0
[10.054151] sd 2:0:0:4: Attached SCSI generic sg7 type 0
[10.097755] sd 2:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[10.121625] sd 2:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[10.145241] sd 2:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[10.169615] sd 2:0:0:4: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
[34.659355] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
Dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
[34.697939] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Dropping to debug shell.
dracut:/#

All those SCSIs are from an internal gazillion in one USB media reader as 
described in attachment.
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