Bug 24084

Summary:	RFE: Allow booting from CDROM read KS file from NFS
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <brian>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr
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Description Need Real Name 2001-01-16 02:19:01 UTC

Kickstart NFS:

linux ks=nfs:server:/path/to/ks.cfg

does not work when booting from the CDROM.  I had to use the floppy image
"bootnet.img" to get this mode to work.  Is this intentional?  Why is
this?  Surely there is enough room on the CD-ROM to include a "super
kernel" that has bootnet.img's features in it, no?

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-17 20:15:12 UTC

We currently do not support this mechanism. I will mark this as a future feature
enhancement.

The problem is the CDROM boots from a image which is the same as the boot.img
image in the images/ directory. It does not have network devices so its can't
load the ks file at loader time.

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2001-01-17 20:17:37 UTC

and additionally, brian, since we use the boot.img for booting from both cdrom
and floppy disk, the boot.img cannot exceed the size of a floppy, so we are
unable to expand the boot.img to take advantage of the space on the cd currently
... thanks for your report!