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Document the current status of the DHCP-less deploy

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I could not make the ramdisk side work on a variety of distributions,
the same problem has been confirmed by another contributor. Until we
get a working procedure for building a ramdisk, add an ugly warning
to the documentation.

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Layer 3 or DHCP-less ramdisk booting Layer 3 or DHCP-less ramdisk booting
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.. warning::
As of the Victoria release, the ramdisk side of this feature does **NOT**
work out-of-box because of a conflict between NetworkManager and Glean_.
To use it properly you need to manually create a ramdisk with Glean_ taking
priority over any other network configuration.
Booting nodes via PXE, while universally supported, suffers from one Booting nodes via PXE, while universally supported, suffers from one
disadvantage: it requires a direct L2 connectivity between the node and the disadvantage: it requires a direct L2 connectivity between the node and the
control plane for DHCP. Using virtual media it is possible to avoid not only control plane for DHCP. Using virtual media it is possible to avoid not only

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issues:
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Building ramdisks for DHCP-less deploy using the ``simple-init`` element
does not currently work. The team is looking into possible solutions.