<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm upgrading a bootable CD which uses kickstart to automatically install REHL4 Upgrade3 and a subset of programs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>The upgrade is needed by a new hardware that requests a special kernel parameter to boot the system (in particular the kernel parameter is 'pci=nommconf' and it should be needed to use the Smart Array Controller)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been able to add this parameter in kickstart config file and now the boot is working fine (I'm using GRUB as bootloader), but I must type the kernel parameter by hand at installation prompt...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a way to configure kickstart (or something else) in order to autamatically pass this kernel parameter to installation process too?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=107483617-05032007><FONT face=Arial size=2>/Luca</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>