[gPXE-devel] [PATCH][lkrn] add cmdline and ramdisk support

[Wu Fengguang]

Hi Shao,

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:57:26PM +0800, Miller, Shao wrote:
> Good day Fengguang,
> 
> Well thanks to you, developers have more than one option to consider.
> Merits of both submissions can be discussed, so perhaps yet another,
> better submission can result.

Yeah, cannot agree any more.

> In regards to your "kernel URL root=... initrd URL" preference, the
> reason I chose a "cmd=..." approach is because I wished to avoid tying
> the gPXE .lkrn prefix to any particular desired boot target type
> (bzImage, in this instance).  Lots of people boot to SAN, for instance,
> or multiboot images like Xen or VMware.

Good viewpoint. Sorry I was too Linux oriented ;)

> You are quite right in that a gPXE script as initrd could provide more
> than a passed command-line could.  Keeping booting choice parameters all
> in one file (syslinux.cfg, grub.conf, etc.) makes for
> "one-stop-shopping," though.

Right, some users may favor the command line.

Thanks,
Fengguang