booting from CD solved

[John G. Heim]

Hi,

I have more or less solved the boot problem. I posted  yesterday about being 
unable to boot from a CD because it wasn't getting an IP address. I found 
messages via google about the man page for live-boot being wrong. The 
live-boot man page gives an example for the ip= boot parameter that doesn't 
work. But I found that this does:

ip=eth0:144.92.166.191:255.255.255.0:144.92.166.1

Actually, that appears to get an IP address via DHCP. So I don't think the 
parms after eth0 mean anything. But I haven't tried leaving them out yet. 
I'm going to try that and then I'll post the results. But I thought I'd 
better let you all know I've more or less solved the problem so nobody but 
me wastes any time on it. Anyway,  a full line for booting via nfsroot looks 
something like this:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz boot=live 
ip=eth0:144.92.166.191:255.255.255.0:144.92.166.1 
FAI_FLAGS="verbose,createvt" FAI_ACTION=install hostname=faiserver


That is very similar to what it looked like before the switch to grub2.