Bug 1947376

Summary:	Remove support for anaconda boot arguments without the "inst." prefix
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jiri Konecny <jkonecny>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Sagar Dubewar <sdubewar>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	9.0	CC:	bilhar, jkonecny, mlewando, rvykydal, sdubewar, vponcova
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	TestCaseNeeded, Triaged
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	anaconda-34.25.0.7-1	Doc Type:	Removed functionality
Doc Text:	.Removed support for Anaconda boot arguments without `inst.` prefix Anaconda boot arguments without the `inst.` prefix have been deprecated since RHEL 7. Support for these boot arguments has been removed in RHEL 9. To continue using these options, use the `inst.` prefix. + For example, to force the installation program to run in text mode instead of graphical mode, use the following option: + ---- inst.text ----	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-12-07 21:20:54 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Jan Stodola 2021-04-08 10:46:00 UTC

Description of problem:
Anaconda boot arguments without the "inst." prefix have been deprecated since RHEL-7. Remove the support in RHEL-9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-34.24.6-1.el9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the installation with an anaconda boot argument without the "inst." prefix, for example "text"

Actual results:
The boot argument is recognized and used.

Expected results:
Anaconda boot arguments without the "inst." prefix are not used any more.

Comment 3 Radek Vykydal 2021-05-03 15:16:33 UTC

https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3328

Comment 5 Radek Vykydal 2021-05-06 15:42:03 UTC

(In reply to Radek Vykydal from comment #4)
> Release engineering / compose tooling is not ready for the change yet.

so revert it temporarily
https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3346

Comment 8 Jiri Konecny 2021-06-01 12:47:01 UTC

PR: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3422

Comment 16 Marta Lewandowska 2021-07-13 14:05:31 UTC

warnings are written before start of installer and into anaconda.log; for example:
WRN stdout: Kernel boot argument 'repo' detected. Did you want to use 'inst.repo' for the installer instead?
WRN stdout: All Anaconda kernel boot arguments are now required to use 'inst.' prefix!

and then the deprecated boot arguments are ignored, and interactive installer starts.
tested ks, repo, sshd, text arguments using anaconda-34.25.0.9-1.el9 (compose RHEL-9.0.0-20210712.3)