[Users] node iso installer drops into dracut with Supermicro Virtual CD drive

René Koch (ovido) r.koch at ovido.at
Tue Jan 29 17:37:10 UTC 2013



On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 18:22 +0100, Jorick Astrego wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 03:31 PM, Alexandre Santos wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ok I can do that, but how do I do that on boot? I could modify the iso 
> but I don't have the normal grub bootscreen so I can edit it.
> 
> I tried replacing the CDLABEL parameter in the kernel arguments but this 
> gets me nowhere.
> 
> You state it's a bug on Fedora, but from a user perspective that doesn't 
> matter.... it just doesn't work properly. And this hasn't worked for 
> nearly a year now.
> 
> An installer where you have to manually enter parameters on boot in a 
> limited time window (a couple of seconds otherwise you have reboot 
> again) doesn't make us admins happy.
> 
> 

Hi,

You can change boot options using the following steps:
1. Boot from CD
2. Press "Tab" when you see "Start Ovirt Node"
3. Change "root=live:CDLABEL=ovirt-node-iso" to "root=live:/dev/sr0"



Regards,
René








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