Bug 1953078

Summary:	Auto-detecting of installation repositories when using inst.stage2= boot argument has changed in RHEL-8.3
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	bilhar
Documentation sub component:	DDF	QA Contact:	RHEL DPM <rhel-docs>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	Docs Contact:
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Priority:	high	CC:	bilhar, kasmith, rhel-docs, sjalgaon, tcapek
Version:	8.3	Keywords:	Documentation
Target Milestone:	beta
Target Release:	8.5
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Description Jan Stodola 2021-04-23 19:57:48 UTC

Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/performing_a_standard_rhel_installation/custom-boot-options_installing-rhel#installation-source-boot-options_custom-boot-options

Section Number and Name: 
"inst.stage2=" boot option.

Describe the issue: 
In RHEL-8.2 and earlier releases, the installer automatically used the location provided by the inst.stage2= boot argument as an installation repository for HDD and NFS installation sources:

inst.stage2=nfs:[options:]<server>:/<path>
inst.stage2=hd:<device>:/<path>

In RHEL-8.3, this has been changed and the inst.stage2= boot argument no longer automatically use the provided location as the installation source for any location (hdd/nfs/http(s)/ftp) and it is used just to specify the location with the installation program runtime image.
The user has to provide the installation source manually in the installer when using the inst.stage2= boot argument.
The correct way to specify the installation source on the kernel command line is to use the inst.repo= boot argument.


Suggestions for improvement: 
Describe this change in the documentation in the "inst.stage2=" section.

Comment 15 bilhar 2021-06-23 12:04:50 UTC

Closing this BZ as this content is now published on the customer portal, with links below.

Standard install CP link:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/performing_a_standard_rhel_installation/index#installation-source-boot-options_custom-boot-options

Advanced install CP link:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/performing_an_advanced_rhel_installation/index#installation-source-boot-options_kickstart-and-advanced-boot-options