I'm using GRUB and ipxe.lkrn on USB pen drives and existing managed
Linux hosts to boot them direct to our build service from networks
without the PXE DHCP options.

I built ipxe.lkrn from git on 9th November 2011 and was pleased to see
the kernel command line functionality working - I'd last tried this
several months ago when there were only some patches floating about.

However, today I tried this on two other computers (Dell Optiplex 780
and 790) and neither worked.  I had been developing this on an HP Compaq
dc7900.  It appeared GRUB wasn't passing iPXE the command line, or iPXE
wasn't picking it up.  I tried both USB pen drive and hard disk drive
installs of GRUB (grub-0.97-70.el6) and got the same behaviour in both.

So, I was excited to see the new intrd functionality added recently
(https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/27fdb9557266eaaadfb39a2eddfb06d2aade9661), compiled ipxe.lkrn again today and found that the initrd worked a charm.  Exact same script, just copied from the previous GRUB kernel command line and placed in the initrd plain text file.

Cheers,

Kenny.


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