[syslinux] using syslinux to try to kickstart a RH9 install...
Paul Armor
parmor at gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Wed Aug 27 17:23:40 PDT 2003
Hi,
yeah, I've bugged a couple of lists a few times, to no avail... I thought
I'd see if you guys had heard of anything like this...
Thanks,
Paul
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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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