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| author | Victor Lowther <victor.lowther-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> | 2009-02-25 18:42:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> | 2009-03-04 16:54:43 +0100 |
| commit | 0ac9584ded390a078a74f9026168b5f1b88d1bf6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f4271ac89c2e91501a0f4a7767fef4c69ca3ba7 /README | |
| parent | 8177ca3e1e702a48c688adfac9916ebad934c8e2 (diff) | |
We now know how to configure the network interfaces.
Provided that you are configuring them via DHCP. RARP, BOOTP, and static
configuration are not written yet.
Also, adding nic drivers really bloats the initrd.
I am looking for feedback on these patches from people who actually implement
booting over the network. This patch series does not include support for that
yet -- you will not find nfsroot= handling, or booting to a fs supplied by
dhcp yet. I do want to make it as easy as possible to add support for booting
over the network, as well as making it easy for people to customize things to
meet their site requirements.
This patch series is also available as the network-configurability branch at
http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut. It may be rebased without warning to keep
it in sync with the rest of dracut.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ Some general rules for writing modules: * Generator modules should have a two digit numeric prefix -- they run in ascending sort order. Anything in the 90-99 range is stuff that dracut relies on, so try not to break those hooks. - * Generator modules and hooks must have a .sh extension. + * Generator modules and hooks must have a .sh extension. + * We have some breakpoints for debugging your hooks. If you pass 'break' + as a kernel parameter, the initramfs will drop to a shell just before + switching to a new root. You can pass 'break=hookpoint', and the initramfs + will break just before hooks in that hookpoint run. Also, there is an attempt to keep things as distribution-agnostic as possible. Every distribution has their own tool here and it's not |