[ipxe-devel] Does imgextract keep writing to same named location by design?

[Geert Stappers]

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,

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> griznog


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Geert Stappers
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