From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17 i686) 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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.
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.
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.