Disable rancher.state.autoformat?

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Hi,

I iPXE boot my server with RancherOS, but can’t install to sda because it’s used by the live system.
So how to disable rancher.state.autoformat during iPXE boot?

iPXE> dhcp                               
Configuring (net0 00:0d:b9:3c:0c:b0)...... ok
iPXE> set url http://releases.rancher.com/os/latest
iPXE> kernel ${url}/vmlinuz uart_check_keystrokes: error too many bytes are available

iPXE> kernel ${url}/vmlinuz rancher.state.autoformat=[false] console=ttyS0,115200
http://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/vmlinuz... ok 
iPXE> initrd ${url}/initrd
http://releases.rancher.com/os/latest/initrd... ok 
iPXE> boot

I tried some values, but sda was mounted each boot…

  • false
  • /dev/xda
  • [false]
  • [/dev/xda] # but sda still is used ?!

So how boot RancherOS without mounting local hdd?

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Solved it by boot up RancherOS with iPXE, enter the cosole container and remove the sda1 partition which is labeled and used from RancherOS.
After a reboot sda isn’t in use and it’s possible to install RancherOS to the hdd.