pxeboot/kickstart on FC1 x86_64

Brett Pemberton brett at vpac.org
Wed Mar 24 23:17:30 UTC 2004


Hi,

I'm trying to set up a pxeboot/kickstart install process for some
opterons.  I've gotten as far as kickstart, and have hit a problem.

anaconda grabs the ks.cfg file fine, but fails

can anyone give a suggestion ?
thanks,

	/ Brett

* getting kickstart file
* sending dhcp request through device eth0
* waiting for link...
* 5 seconds.
* doing kickstart... setting it up
* reverse name lookup failed
* ks location: http://172.20.0.1/ks.cfg
* transferring http://172.20.0.1//./ks.cfg to a fd
* failed to retrieve http://172.20.0.1///ks.cfg

according to apache on the head node [172.20.0.2]
---
172.20.0.9 - - [24/Mar/2004:22:42:52 +1100] "GET /./ks.cfg HTTP/1.0" 200
1255 "-" "-"
---

the applicable line in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
---
label installauto
        kernel vmlinuz
        append ksdevice=eth0 initrd=initrd.img
ks=http://172.20.0.1/ks.cfg ramdisk=8192
---





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