Custom Boot CDROM with Kickstart

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bits45
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Custom Boot CDROM with Kickstart

Post by bits45 » 2017/05/15 17:53:23

I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

I'm making a custom minimum boot CDROM and attempting to have it, at boot-up, automatically point to the kickstart file that's on the CDROM, without manually typing "linux ks=//cdrom/ks.cfg" and such. Just boot and kickstart is read right off-the-bat.

Do I need to have a custom grub.conf on the cdrom? If so, how do you get the boot agent on the cdrom to look at the grub.conf? Maybe that's the wrong way.

I hope that's clear enough.

Thanks,

CaViCcHi
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Re: Custom Boot CDROM with Kickstart

Post by CaViCcHi » 2017/05/24 23:52:52

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but you're likely using BIOS isolinux via CDROM, not grub

that information "should" be inside the /isolinux/isolinux.cfg of your cdrom.

and your kickstart information needs to be added on the APPEND line, something like...

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LABEL YOURLABEL
  KERNEL /where/your/kernelimage/is/vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=/where/your/initram/is/initrd.img [b]ks=cdrom:/where/your/kickstart/is/ks.cfg [/b]
Note: all paths are relative to your cdrom

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