[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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