[syslinux] using syslinux to try to kickstart a RH9 install...
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Aug 27 17:05:32 PDT 2003
Paul Armor wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem to the one I'm
> having, or can make any recommendations on what else to try. I apologize
> if this is a duplicate of something someone else has written, but my
> google searches have proven fruitless.
>
> Our current setup: cluster of RH7.3 boxes that we use syslinux to pxe
> boot for imaging purposes. The initrd has a customized init, and various
> binaries (cp, diff, sfdisk, etc), a shell script, and necessary libs, all
> added to the default redhat initrd. This works wonderfully!
>
> What we're trying to change: we're trying to use the same
> servers/head-nodes to test the ability to move the cluster to RH9. I am
> able to use the redhat initrd and such to automate the install. But, if I
> modify the initrd (add things to theirs, which changes the compressed
> size; or make the rd big enough to hold all my warez) more than very
> slightly, everything breaks. IE making the zipped redhat disk just a
> little bigger, it forgets that it was told to use a specific .ks and
> anaconda drops to the installer and asks about localizations and such. Or
> if I make the ramdisk too big, anaconda tells me the installation tree is
> invalid.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?!?
>
> Thanks in advance for ANY help you can offer!
> Paul
This seems more appropriate for a RedHat support forum.
-hpa
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