Kickstart via PXE/NFS

[Shabazian, Chip]

How many NIC's do you have in the box?  Are they all embedded, or are
there some on cards?
 
Kickstart is a very powerful and useful tool that we use globally to
build over 1000 distributed systems each year from a centralized and
managed location, and although it has bugs like any product, most issues
like you are having tend to be infrastructure or manufacturer related.
 
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Subject: Re: Kickstart via PXE/NFS



I made a change to pxe cfg file to have ks.cfg file read via http. 

It fails too. However, if I look in the anaconda log I see the message
getting ks.cfg 
but then failed to transfer ks.cfg to fd. The snoop from the KS server
side shows the HTTP 
retrieval of the KS config file. Is it really trying to use an fd
device, a floppy? These 
Dell servers do not include floppys. 

Redhat sure has taken something that should be relatively easy and made
it a pain in the butt. 
  

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/14/2007 01:29:54 PM:

> if you page-up in vty3, can you see what your kernel command line is?
> alternately if it makes it to shell in vty2, 'cat /proc/cmdline' - i
> wonder if it's actually doing the ipappend stuff. you might need a
> newer pxelinux.0 if not. also, instead of 'ksdevice=bootif' you can do
> 'ksdevice=link ip=dhcp'  ; the bootif argument is more useful if you
> have 2 nics enabled/link-up and want to make sure it doesnt pxeboot
> out one interface and then ks out the other.
> 
> -=Eric
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