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Description of problem: Currently root= points to install.img on fedoraproject.org: root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s390x/os/images/install.img However, in order to reach this site, a proxy is required. Please add support in dracut for http proxy via kernel commandline. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-018-35.git20120510.fc17 How reproducible: 100%
This looks like a documentation error not a programming error. I added the "http_proxy=" parameter and it worked (at least as far as the boot goes). The doc has the parameter as "proxy=" which doesn't work. http_proxy=http://myuser:mypw@companyproxy:proxyport root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/17/Fedora/s3 90x/os/images/install.img
What documentation did you use?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options?rd=Anaconda/Options I know wwoods has new docs available given the inst.* stuff he did in dracut, but I do not know where he's keeping them or what their state is. So I guess I'll reassign.
fyi, opened on behalf of tehuegel@gmail.com. I wasn't aware of the http_proxy option, proxy listed as future update on http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html#_proxy
I think setting the http_proxy variable works because dracut doesn't process it and it's propagated to environment where curl used for downloading the images understands it. So either the docs need update for http_proxy= or dracut should understand proxy=
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