On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:44:13AM -0600, John Hanks wrote: > Hi, > > I am using imgextract to download several images, like so > > imgextract --name one http://master/one.img > imgextract --name two http://master/two.img > imgextract --name three http://master/three.img > boot kernel initrd=initrd.magic initrd=one initrd=two initrd=three blah > blah blah > > So far so good, except that I wanted to try adding a lot of these but am > restricted by the maximum kernel command line length. I naively tried > > imgextract --name mysystem http://master/one.img > imgextract --name mysystem http://master/two.img > imgextract --name mysystem http://master/three.img > boot kernel initrd=initrd.magic initrd=mysystem blah blah blah > > and it worked!!! But, that seems way too easy, like I'm cheating. Is this > expected to work this way or am I exploiting a bug that might get fixed > later? I don't want to depend on this unless it's working this way on > purpose.
I don't know, but I would use `imgfetch` alias `initrd`. See https://ipxe.org/cmd/imgfetch for furture information. > Thanks, Please thank the mailinglist(archive) by reporting what works for you. > griznog Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
