Kickstart via PXE/NFS

[SSTinsley at upsfreight.com]

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/14/2007 01:05:14 PM:

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

Second interface is not active, no link


> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of SSTinsley at upsfreight.com
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:31 AM
> To: law at redhat.com; Discussion list about Kickstart
> 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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