Bug 1711063

Summary: document how to disable default kernel command line options
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: DocAssignee: Carol Bouchard <cbouchar>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version: 26CC: bpeck, cbouchar, mastyk, pbunyan
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Description Jeff Bastian 2019-05-16 21:01:47 UTC
Description of problem:
Beaker automatically adds certain kernel command line options like ksdevice=bootif during kickstart.  Occasionally I need to remove one of those options for testing, and I thought the only way was to set up my own PXE server.  I learned today there is a hidden (or not well documented) feature of adding the option with a ! prefix to disable it.  For example, this will remove the option:

  <recipe ... kernel_options="!ksdevice=bootif" ...>

Please update the documentation to show this method.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Beaker 26.4

Comment 2 Martin Styk 2020-07-10 15:01:54 UTC
https://github.com/beaker-project/beaker/pull/47