PXE-based kickstart fails on RHEL/CentOS-7.4

[Pushpendra Chavan]

You might want to try appending the following anaconda parameter to the
menu append line.

inst.stage2=<url where bootable full dvd media contents are hosted>

This can also be replaced by inst.repo parameter.



On Jan 18, 2018 1:53 PM, <tegner at renget.se> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> have for a long time used a setup to use kickstart over PXE. The
> "netboot-file" responsible for starting kickstart has the following
> contents:
>
> default linux
> serial 0,9600n8
> label linux
>   kernel vmlinuz-centos73
>   append console=tty0 initrd=initrd-centos73.img ks=http://192.168.0.198/
> kickstart/ks-centos73.cfg
>
> However, when I apply this on CentOS-7.4 (after changing image and kernel)
> it hangs on "switchroot":
>
> "... specified switch root path /sysroot does not seem to be an OS tree.
> os-release file is missing."
>
> Any hints on what may be causing this are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> /jon
>
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