[ILUG] PXElinux and Kickstart

[Paul Kelly]

Paul Reilly wrote:
> I'm testing out PXELinux/SysLinux [1] to do a remote install
> over PXE with Kickstart.

I've got that working with both a customized Red Hat 7.3 and Whitebox 3.0.

> default linux
> label linux
>   kernel vmlinuz
>   append ksdevice=eth1 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd.img \
>          network ks=nfs:mymachine.tld:/linuxboot/ks.cfg
> 
> Does that look OK, or am I missing something?

Seems close enough to mine, though I've only ever done it through eth0...

LABEL whitebox-ide
   KERNEL pxeboot.whitebox/vmlinuz
   APPEND initrd=pxeboot.whitebox/initrd.img \
ks=nfs:192.168.167.254:/whitebox/nfs/kickstart/ide.cfg ksdevice=eth0

Don't be afraid to use ethereal to figure out what's going on. Could be 
DNS. Could be the NFS server refusing the mount request (reverse DNS on 
the client IP address can be important). Perhaps it is getting the 
kickstart file, but not using it due to some option or other - check the 
other ttys on the installer screen, maybe paste the kickstart file here.

It should be possible to snaffle the kickstart file through FTP, or HTTP 
- with nothing more than the appropriate URL as the ks= setting.

Paul.