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Merge pull request #1422 from niusmallnan/update-ipxe

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Boot a non-persistent RancherOS to RAM via iPXE
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# Location of Kernel/Initrd images
set base-url http://releases.rancher.com/os/latest
kernel ${base-url}/vmlinuz rancher.state.dev=LABEL=RANCHER_STATE rancher.state.autoformat=[/dev/sda] rancher.cloud_init.datasources=[url:http://example.com/cloud-config]
kernel ${base-url}/vmlinuz rancher.state.dev=LABEL=RANCHER_STATE rancher.state.autoformat=[/dev/sda] rancher.state.wait rancher.cloud_init.datasources=[url:http://example.com/cloud-config]
initrd ${base-url}/initrd
boot
```
If you want to autoformat the disk when booting by iPXE, you should add the `rancher.state.autoformat` part to kernel cmdline. However, this does not install the bootloader to disk, so you cannot upgrade RancherOS.
If you don't add `rancher.state.autoformat`, RancherOS will run completely in memory, you can execute `ros install` to install to disk.
### Hiding sensitive kernel commandline parameters
From RancherOS v0.9.0, secrets can be put on the `kernel` parameters line afer a `--` double dash, and they will be not be shown in any `/proc/cmdline`. These parameters