[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX

[Jim Wright]

the location of the kickstart file is derived from a kernel commandline
argument, not from a dhcp response.  for example,

LABEL ks73
    KERNEL vmlinuz-7.3-bootnet
    APPEND initrd=initrd-7.3-bootnet.img ip=dhcp ks=nfs:192.168.99.1:/path/to/ks.cfg lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168



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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, 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
> 
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