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PXE boot Fedora 16

Resolution:  noapic acpi=off for kernel args

Implementation:
[root@blackmesa ~]# cd /var/www/html/isos
[root@blackmesa ~]# wget http://some.server.com/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso
[root@blackmesa ~]# mkdir /var/www/html/OS/Fedora16-x86_64

[root@blackmesa ~]# echo "/var/www/html/isos/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso /var/www/html/OS/Fedora16-x86_64 udf,iso9660 user,loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
[root@blackmesa ~]# mount /var/www/html/OS/Fedora16-x86_64 


[root@blackmesa ~]# mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/Fedora16-x86_64
[root@blackmesa ~]# /var/www/html/OS/Fedora16-x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img /var/lib/tftpboot/Fedora16-x86_64
[root@blackmesa ~]# /var/www/html/OS/Fedora16-x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz /var/lib/tftpboot/Fedora16-x86_64
Add an entry into your pxeboot default files
[root@blackmesa ~]# cat /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
...<trunc'd for brevity>...
label 16
  kernel Fedora16-x86_64/vmlinuz
  append initrd=Fedora16-x86_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=link autostep repo=http://10.10.31.10/OS/Fedora16-x86_64 ks=http://10.10.31.10/Profiles/Fedora16-x86_64.ks noapic acpi=off 

[root@blackmesa ~]# cat << EOF > /var/www/html/Profiles/Fedora16-x86_64.ks 
install
url --url=http://10.10.31.10/OS/Fedora16-x86_64
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
EOF

Issue:  I am testing an old Compaq nc6400 and a new Kickstart server and attempting to integrate Fedora into the whole thing.  One additional thing that is noteworthy, the 'eth0' interface is now p2p1 (or some nonsense) in Fedora 16.
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  1. IscaApril 30, 2012 at 6:27 PM

    I have a problem using this method. When it starts boot give me a message dracut = no root entry.
    I also try put nfs server and give the parameters to the nfs server and no sucess with this too.
    How can i fix that? Seems something is missing here... What root paramether is in your pxelinux.cfg/default file

    Thanks

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 4:08 AM

    that issue with strange eth0 name can be bypassed by appending biosdevname=0 to kernel at instalation

    ReplyDelete

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