Bug 59443

Summary:	Kickstart vis nfs fails if your boot image is 'ks'
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mike Ireton <linuxhacker>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Mike Ireton 2002-02-08 00:17:59 UTC

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Description of problem:
If the installation is started via floppy, using a section label of 'ks'
(presumably, a user added section to the distributed boot image that means to
boot via kickstart with user supplied options...), anaconda will fail to locate
the correct ks.cfg file, even tho it's correctly appended to the kernel command
line paramaters. Renaming the boot section to something other than 'ks' corrects
the problem.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a boot floppy using images/bootnet.img from the redhat cdrom.
2. Modify the file syslinux.cfg so that it has a new section named 'ks'. For
example:

label ks
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 devfs=nomount network
ksdevice=eth0 ks=nfs:192.168.1.254:/opt/redhat/ks-default.cfg text

3. Boot from this floppy and select this image to boot.

	
	

Actual Results:  
	Assuming you had a dhcp server and an nfs server as specfied above in the
command line, the system would fail to locate 'ks-default.cfg' on the nfs
server. Instead of using nfs to mount /opt/redhat, grab the specfied file, then
do an install from /opt/redhat, the system instead tries to mount /kickstart
from the dhcp server.


Additional info:


Renaming the section from 'ks' to anything else, immediately fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-02-11 17:02:26 UTC

A label 'ks' already exists by default in the syslinux.cfg; are you replacing
this section or just adding another one?  syslinux may well get confused by two
stanzas of the same name.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-02-11 17:23:07 UTC

Email from the user --

        Hmm, now that I've looked again, I see there are two ks stanzas
on my test floppy. User misconfliguration, sorry.