<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>method</para>
+ <para>AuthMethod</para>
<para>The authentication method, only 'hmac' is currently
supported</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
- <para>Existing 2.x boot cds will look for the configuration files only
- on a floppy disk, and the file must be named 'planet.cnf'. The new 3.x
- boot cds, however, will initially look for a file named 'plnode.txt' on
- either a floppy disk, or burned onto the cd itself. Alternatively, it
- will fall back to looking for the original file name,
- 'planet.cnf'.</para>
-
<para>An example of a configuration file for a dhcp networked
machine:</para>
NET_DEVICE="00:06:5B:EC:33:BB"
NODE_KEY="79efbe871722771675de604a227db8386bc6ef482a4b74"
NODE_ID="121"</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Existing 2.x boot cds will look for the configuration files only
+ on a floppy disk, and the file must be named 'planet.cnf'. The new 3.x
+ boot cds, however, will initially look for a file named 'plnode.txt' on
+ either a floppy disk, or burned onto the cd itself. Alternatively, it
+ will fall back to looking for the original file name, 'planet.cnf'. This
+ initial file reading is performed by the boot cd itself to bring the
+ nodes network online, so it can download and execute the Boot
+ Manager.</para>
+
+ <para>However, the Boot Manager will also need to identify the location
+ of and read in the file, so it can get the extra fields not initially
+ used to bring the network online (node_key and node_id). Below is the
+ search order that the boot manager will use to locate a file. If a file
+ is found in the order below, but does not match the network that has
+ already been setup, then there may be two configuration files located on
+ the same machine. In this situation, the file is skipped and searching
+ resumes.</para>
+
+ <para>Configuration file location search order (both file names,
+ plnode.txt and planet.cnf are search in each of these locations;
+ plnode.txt first):</para>
+
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Standard floppy disk (/dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1)</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>USB floppy disk</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>USB flash based disk</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>USB cdrom</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>standard cdrom</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
</section>
</section>