[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX

[James S. Martin]

You need to put the unique kickstart file on a NFS share and reference it.

In your config files under pxelinux.cfg, you should make something like 
this (the append should all be one line).


default ks
display boot.msg
label ks
   kernel vmlinuz
   append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 
ks=nfs:10.1.1.1:/kickstart_files/my_unique_kickstart_file


James Martin, RHCE



Peter Guthrie wrote:
> 
> We are attempting to setup an automated system to build some Linux
> systems. We have utilised the PXELINUX bootloader after encountering
> the PXE 512Kb limit with bootp.
> 
> We now have another issue which you may have already run into. In the
> DHCP configuration we specify pxelinux.0 as the bootfile, this works
> reasonable well, we call the Redhat vmlinuz and initrd.img files
> within the pxelinux.cfg/config file and the installation begins
> as expected. We would like to have a non-interactive installation
> using the Kickstart mechanism to provide the responses, the issue
> is that the installer expects to get the Kickstart file location
> from the DHCP 'bootfile' parameter which we have already used
> to provide the pxelinux.0.
> 
> Have you encountered this problem before?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
> 
> Peter Guthrie
>