From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] livenet: module for fetching live images from the network Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:01:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4E44C1C7.9050705@redhat.com> References: <1312230160-11295-1-git-send-email-wwoods@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1312230160-11295-1-git-send-email-wwoods-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Will Woods Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 01.08.2011 22:22, Will Woods wrote: > The livenet module allows you to use a root arg like: > > root=http://server.name/path/to/live.img ip=dhcp > > The named live image will be downloaded with wget and then set up as the > root device. > > It currently supports FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS. dracut will try to install > the CA bundle (/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt) into the initramfs so that > SSL certificate checking will work properly. > > If an HTTPS URL is given and the site fails the certificate check, the > file will be rejected and the system will not boot into it. > > Signed-off-by: Will Woods pushed