[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler profile pxelinux text

[Harry Hoffman]

I can't verify (right now) that it's in the man page but:

man bootparam


> Aaron Lippold wrote:
>
> The Linux kernel has a 255 character limit on kernel options.   I'm
> coming up a bit short on the google links to articles on this, though
> it's a fairly well
> known item.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I like to understand the topic being discussed below. Can someone
>> point me to some docs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On 6/13/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Caetano, Greg wrote:
>>> > Michael:
>>> >
>>> > I'm doing out of band hardware configuration with automatic chain to
>>> a
>>> > RH installation for new bare metal or possible out of band firmware
>>> > updates then reboot to local boot.
>>> >
>>> > The syslinux stanza for the out of band toolkit is:
>>> >
>>> > label toolkit
>>> >   kernel vmlinuz
>>> >   append noapic initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 rw
>>> ramdisk_size=102400
>>> > ide=nodma ide=noraid pnpbios=off network=1
>>> > sstk_mount=10.100.100.1:/SSSTK sstk_mount_type=nfs
>>> > sstk_mount_options=ro,nolock sstk_script=/scripts/deploy.sh
>>> >
>>> > Now I just manually update the pxelinux.cfg to get what I'm looking
>>> for.
>>> >
>>> > Greg
>>>
>>> Excellent, thanks for the explanation and I understand.
>>>
>>> So, basically this is a custom upgrade initrd? I can see what it would
>>> take to leave that option off --- it's not difficult.
>>> Perhaps the syntax would be "--kickstart=off" ... This makes sense when
>>> supporting things like memtest too..
>>>
>>> --Michael
>>>
>>>
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