Bug 2215506

Summary:	Document new inst.wait_for_disks=<SECONDS> boot option in the installation guide
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Jan Stodola <jstodola>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Sagar Dubewar <sdubewar>
Documentation sub component:	default	QA Contact:	RHEL DPM <rhel-docs>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	Docs Contact:
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Priority:	medium	CC:	rhel-docs, tcapek
Version:	8.9	Keywords:	Documentation, FutureFeature
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Description Jan Stodola 2023-06-16 09:21:55 UTC

Document URL: 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/performing_an_advanced_rhel_8_installation/kickstart-and-advanced-boot-options_installing-rhel-as-an-experienced-user#storage-boot-options_kickstart-and-advanced-boot-options

Section Number and Name: 
16.7. Storage boot options (RHEL-8)
1.7. Storage boot options (RHEL-9)

Describe the issue: 
There is a new boot option inst.wait_for_disks= implemented in RHEL-8.9/9.3, see bug 1770969 and bug 2171811.

Suggestions for improvement:
A proposed text to be added to the installation guide:

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inst.wait_for_disks=
Use the inst.wait_for_disks= option to specify the number of seconds the installer should wait for disk devices to appear at the beginning of the installation. This option is useful when an OEMDRV labeled device is used to automatically load a kickstart file or the kernel drivers, but the OEMDRV device takes a long time to appear during the boot process. The installer waits at least 5 seconds by default. Use 0 seconds to minimize the delay.
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Additional information: 
Note that this boot option will be available since 8.9 and 9.3, so this should be noted in the installation guide as well.

Comment 5 Sagar Dubewar 2023-11-23 10:43:56 UTC

RNs and other document is published. Hence no more work is pending on this issue. 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/boot_options_for_rhel_installer/index#storage-boot-options_kickstart-and-advanced-boot-options

Closing the issue for now. In case any more updates are required, feel free to reopen this ticket or create a new one. 

thank you :)