RE: [Linux-ia64] Interactive installation with PXE booting

Egan Ford
2002-01-17T19:23:58Z

prompt
timeoutP
default=install

image=vmlinuz
label=install
read-only
initrd=ramdisk.img

Works, if you use the vmlinuz from CD/kernels and the ramdisk.img from
CD/images with RH7.1. I have not receive my 7.2 CDs yet so I have not
tested.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher D. Maestas [mailto:cdmaest@sandia.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: Egan Ford
> Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> Subject: [Linux-ia64] Interactive installation with PXE booting
>
>
> Has anyone been able to write an elilo.conf that allows for an interactive
> network installation? For example in pxelinux.cfg/default I can do:
> ---
> label vgainteractiverh72
> kernel vmlinuz.rh72
> append vga=extended root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.img.rh72
> console=tty0
> ---
>
> I tried in elilo.conf:
> ---
> prompt
> timeoutP
> default=localdisk
> verbose=5
>
> image=vmlinuz.rh72-ia64
> label=vgainteractiveia64
> read-only
> append = "vga=extended console=tty0"
> ---
>
> And them type in vgainteractiveia64 when prompted, but the kernel
> panics because
> I didn't append a root option. I've tried root=/dev/ram0 and that doesn't
> work either.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Egan Ford wrote:
>
> > prompt
> > timeoutP
> > default=install
> >
> > image=vmlinuz
> > append="console=ttyS0,9600 ks=nfs:jupiter:/tftpboot/ia64.ks
> ksdevice=eth0"
> > label=install
> > read-only
> > initrd=ramdisk.img
> >
> > This is what I use to boot RH's installation kernel and initrd
> with elilo
> > and tftp.
>
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