23.5. Storage boot options
You can specify the following options to customize booting from a storage device.
- inst.nompath
Disables support for multipath devices. Use this option only if your system has a false-positive that incorrectly identifies a normal block device as a multipath device.
警告Use this option with caution. Do not use this option with multipath hardware. Using this option to install to a single path of a multipath device is not supported.
- inst.gpt
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Prefer creation of GPT disk labels. This option is deprecated and will be removed in future releases. Use
inst.disklabel=gptinstead. - inst.disklabel=
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Prefer creation of the specified disk label type. Specify
gptto prefer creation of GPT disk labels (default). Specifymbrto prefer creation of MBR disk labels if supported. - inst.wait_for_disks=
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Use the
inst.wait_for_disks=option to specify the number of seconds installation program to wait for disk devices to appear at the beginning of the installation. Use this option when you use theOEMDRV-labeleddevice to automatically load the Kickstart file or the kernel drivers but the device takes a longer time to appear during the boot process. By default, the installation program waits for5seconds. Use0seconds to minimize the delay. - inst.nonibftiscsiboot
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The
inst.nonibftiscsibootoption enables placement of the boot loader oniSCSIdevices that are not configured through theiSCSIboot firmware table (iBFT).