Re: PCI Devices ( NIC ) Enumerated on RHEL5 ( latest )

[Chris Lumens <clumens redhat com>]

> > By default, cobbler uses ksdevice=bootif, and uses the extra parameter
> > "IPAPPEND 2" in the pxelinux file (you must do this or it won't work).
> > What this does is it tells Anaconda to use the ethernet device that was
> > used to PXE boot.  You must also be using a syslinux package of a certain
> > version but with RHEL5.3 that shouldn't be a concern (on RHEL4 it can be).
> >
> 
> I also found this a while back. It worked for me.
> 
> It is interesting that none of this is documented in the kickstart
> documentation.
> options.

This is documented on the anaconda options page of the wiki:

   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options

The kickstart page on the wiki should refer to it, though.  I believe
the docs writing guys will be referring to these pages for writing the
documentation in RHEL6 and later.

- Chris