IMO, it would be worth the work to go ahead and make the BIOS support PXE, that assures that you will be able to use this in the future on any machine in your datacenter. Also make that a required step in your config sheet when a new server comes in. Using PXE I was able to put a new install on 40+ servers in less than 2 hours during a recent upgrade. That's a lot of floppies. -----Original Message----- From: MW Mike Weiner (5028) [mailto:MWeiner@xxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:18 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases; marcel@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: PXE boot disks -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MW Mike Weiner (5028) Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:56 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases; marcel@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: PXE boot disks I have been down this road before, but am running into some issues. OK, what I am trying to do is create a "boot disk" such that someone in our data center can simply stick the disk in the floppy, reboot the server and it will boot off of that, and begin the kickstart install. So to that end, I have the following in my syslinux.cfg: default linux prompt 1 timeout 600 display snake.msg F1 boot.msg F2 general.msg F3 expert.msg F4 param.msg F5 rescue.msg F7 snake.msg DEFAULT linux LABEL linux KERNEL vmlinuz APPEND ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 initrd=initrd.img network ip=dhcp ks=nfs:10.10.232.54:/tftpboot/ks.cfg selinux=0 However, when it boots off of the diskette, It ends up failing complaining that it cannot mount / nor find /tmp/ks.cfg -- Update, I changed the syslinux.cfg to say ks=floppy since I have the ks.cfg on the local boot floppy. And that seems to get around that issue. Now, it goes to NFS mount 10.10.232.54:/repo/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os and it fails to mount and basically bombs. BTW, I have all this working via PXE, the issue is that I would have to have the person in the data center redo the BIOS' across all 450 odd machines to get the PXE boot to work, and a boot disk seemed to be less work to me, simply stick it in, rather than changing default BIOS settings. Any thoughts? Michael Weiner -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ********** Confidentiality Notice ********** This electronic transmission and any attached documents or other writings are confidential and are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) identified above. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure under applicable law. If the receiver of this information is not the intended recipient, or the employee, or agent responsible for delivering the information to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, reading, dissemination, distribution, copying or storage of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender by return email and delete the electronic transmission, including all attachments from your system.
