On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 15:22, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at 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.] -- Stephen J Smoogen.