[136] in athena10
Re: rc.conf values via kernel arguments?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Mar 27 13:07:36 2008
Cc: athena10@MIT.EDU
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200803271703.m2RH3xQg032114@pothole.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:06:50 -0400
After I sent this, Bill pointed out to me that the project plan says
we're not using rc.conf anymore, so I'll amend my proposal to "Some
way to configure IP address and hostname at boot time without a
reboot", but that's basically the same thing.
-Jon
On Mar 27, 2008, at 1:03 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
>> I was thinking something like appending "athena_ipaddr=18.x.y.z" to
>> the kernel arguments, [...]
>
> Given how frequently I find myself booting Athena machines single-user
> for exactly that purpose, I at least would find it really useful.
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> "Yay."
