Kickstart via PXE/NFS

Mon May 14 17:05:14 UTC 2007

Are both NIC's turned on? You May want to turn one off in the bios to
bypass the enumeration issue.

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SSTinsley at upsfreight.com
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Kickstart via PXE/NFS

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/14/2007 11:23:36 AM:

> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:29 -0400, SSTinsley at upsfreight.com wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/14/2007 09:53:40 AM:
> > 
> > > Adding ksdevice=xxx to the append line for the boot should get rid

> > > of the interface options. Kickstart doesn't know the config until 
> > > after it brings the interface up.
> > >  
> > 
> > I am specifying the ksdevice in the pxelinux.cfg file. I also set
the
> > IPAPPEND 2 option which I understood would pass in the IP address of
> > the boot server for use as the IP during the  
> > install. 
> How long is the line specifying all your options (ks device, ks 
> location, initrd, etc etc?  There's a hard limit of 255 characters
> and if you exceed it the options are silently truncated which 
> obviously leads to unexpected results. 

It is about 120 characters, give or take, but nowhere near 255. 

> 
> Jeff
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