Another anaconda noloader change to document for F17: must specify repo= when doing direct kernel boot (e.g. PXE)

So I thought of one more big F17 change that should go in the release notes and/or install guide, when it comes to installation. There are a few use cases for doing a 'direct boot' of the Fedora installer: that is, you don't actually boot from any release medium, but you boot the installer kernel/initrd directly, manually. The most obvious case is a PXE install. In F16, you really _only_ needed to specify the kernel and initrd location, and the install would work - kernel/initrd got you stage1, and stage1 got you stage2. With noloader, this is no longer the case: when you're doing a direct kernel boot, you need to tell it where to find 'stage2'. In other words: you have to pass repo= or stage2= (or inst.repo= or inst.stage2=, as it's now preferred), pointing to a repository. If you want to get just the stage2 image from one server but then the installation packages from some other server, you have to use stage2= : repo= should only be used if the server you're pointing to contains everything needed for the install (both the stage2 image _and_ all the packages you want to install). Note that stage2= still expects to see a 'repository' tree, you can't just pass the path direct to a squashfs.img file (which is how stage2= worked when it previously existed in F15 and earlier). label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img (or something like that), you need: label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/ or: label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img stage2=http://my.internal.server/17/x86_64/os/ (or any other valid mirror). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net