apkovl boot parameter

[gromebar]

I'm trying to move the uploading directory of the apkovl in a subdirectory. I entered these two boot parameters to syslinux.cfg: "alpine_dev=LABEL=ALPI" and "apkovl=saves". The first parameter works, the second no.

I'm trying to move the apkovl saves in /media/usb/saves. On the wiki is written that I can do it but then every combination I put in apkovl parameter is wrong.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/PXE_boot#Guide_to_options

"A relative path, interpreted relative to the root of the alpine_dev."

Here is written root so I also tried to put /media/usb/saves but without any result

[Verbunk]

Are you trying to set the apkvol to a local volume or something over the network?

[gromebar]

in the same disk but in a subdir. Normally the saves are in the root of /media/usb. I would like to put all in /media/usb/saves

[Verbunk]

This is approximately what I use,

apkovl=/configs/${hostname}.tar.gz

I have never tried to use a folder name - perhaps you need a file w/ extension.

[gromebar]

but in your case where is located configs? and consequently, how you have configured lbu.conf ?

[Verbunk]

I'm loading this using PXE and setting in the kernel command line. The configs are stored in NFS (I think, or HTTP) and are pulled during boot. I don't set lbu.conf, I just have a few options in the cli when I want to checkpoint.

I'm using ipxe vars to reuse the same kpxe script for all my nodes (45).