On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 15:22, Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com wrote:
ip=192.168.1.13::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:hostname.goes.here:eth0:on:1500:<mac-address-of-eth0>
Thanks for the information.
What "insanity". Take a perfectly good syntax and muck it up like that. The developer that "lost" backward compatibility for that mess needs a couple more drinks or something.
The problem I think was that the syntax was one which worked for one OS and the dracut is meant to work for all Linuxes.. so they worked out a set of items which worked for Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora. The syntax change I think landed in Fedora right after RHEL-6 and was in RHEL-7 from the beginning. As the web page goes over, there are several different syntaxes which can be used for different environments.
[At this point i have been having to hack that syntax for 7 years so I have a severe case of Stockholm syndrome.]