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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.

Comments

  1. 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

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

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