01-20-2012
Forgive me if my question seems silly, but are you referring to the append section (of pxelinux.cfg/defualt) as the place to pass kernel options? As in:
label centos6.0
kernel CentOS6.0/vmlinuz
append initrd=CentOS6.0/initrd.img ....... ks=....
I would like to use a variable to specify the kickstart file, so I could have something like:
ks=nfs:<IP-ADDRESS>/$PATH_TO_KICKSTART
As for initrd, I am not familiar with that. I will do some research. Thanks for the suggestion. Would an initrd allow me to add kernel options? PXE booting is obviously fairly new to me.
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NAME
mkdumprd - (Re)build the initramfs for kdump
SYNOPSIS
mkdumprd [-h] [-q] [-f] [-k kernelver] [-i opts]
DESCRIPTION
mkdumprd (re-)builds the kdump initrd. For kdump, a special initrd is used because
o the kdump initrd should include network modules and network configuration (and therefore is larger as the normal initrd used for
booting),
o the kdump initrd should use no splash screen,
o the kdump initrd includes kdumptool(8) and all required libraries.
This script calls mkinitrd(8) with all required parameters. If the initrd already exists, it checks first if the configuration file or the
kernel are newer, and only rebuilds the initrd if necessary.
OPTIONS
All option parsing is done via the getopt(3) function, and therefore follows all standard command line parsing rules.
-h | --help
Shows help output and exits.
-k kernelversion
Specifies the kernel version. If no version is specified and also no kernel or initrd are specified, then mkdumprd uses kdumptool(8) to
find out the correct kernel and initrd.
-K kernel
Specifies the kernel binary. If you specify that option, also specify -I.
-I initrd
Specifies the resulting initrd. If you specify that option, also specify -K.
-q
Be quiet. Don't output status messages. Used to call mkdumprd(8) from /etc/init.d/kdump init script.
-i parameters
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FILES
/etc/sysconfig/kdump
Kdump configuration. See kdump(5).
BUGS
Please report bugs and enhancement requests at https://bugzilla.novell.com.
COPYING
Copyright (c) 2008 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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SEE ALSO
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