Bug 24084 – RFE: Allow booting from CDROM read KS file from NFS

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Bug 24084 - RFE: Allow booting from CDROM read KS file from NFS

Summary:	RFE: Allow booting from CDROM read KS file from NFS

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2001-01-15 21:19 EST by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:30 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-09-17 15:14:06 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2001-01-15 21:19:01 EST

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 15:15:12 EST

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 15:17:37 EST

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!

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