I have a working kickstart file that does a satisfactory install. If I load that kickstart file over the net from the kernel command line, all goes well. If I instead load the same kickstart file from the disk I am then unable to fetch stage2 (and so forth) from the net. All of the necessary kernel options (ip, netmask, gateway...) are unchanged. The only change is that the kickstart file is being loaded from disk rather than net. Adding an explicit "method" argument to the kernel command line did not help. It appears that anaconda is concluding early that this is a disk-based install, and is therefore not bringing up the network at all. I'm perfectly willing to add kernel command line uptions and/or a %pre script. I would prefer the %pre approach. I tried adding a %pre that used ifconfig and route to bring up the interfaces by hand, but no joy. Is there a straightforward way to resolve this from within the kickstart script? If the details can be worked out by studying the installer scripts, I'm happy to go do that, but I would appreciate a pointer to the place where it checks whether to bring up the net. I was unable to locate that.
Can you provide your kickstart file and kernel command line arguments?
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Updating this to F9 so that I can re-test. If this is now resolved I will close, else I will provide the kickstart file. Unfortunately I didn't see your request for the KS file until now. No idea why.
Is this still a problem in F9?