Problem with reading kickstart file from second dvdrom drive

[Chris Pattullo]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 03:40 -0400, Pat <patchu1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
<snip>
>         Details:
>         I require the user to type "installme" at the install
>         menu to follow my kickstart file. The relevant lines
>         from isolinux.cfg are:
>         
>         label installme
>           kernel vmlinuz
>           append ks=cdrom:/my.cfg initrd=initrd.img
>         ramdisk_size=8192
</snip>

At first look I would say your problem is with 'ks=cdrom...'. If you can
get a look at what the system considers cdrom I think you'll find it's
probably your first drive. Which would explain why when the DVD drive is
the only one present everything works.

If you can find a way to specify the DVD drive specifically by finding
out what device Linux considers it to be and substituting that for
'cdrom' you may be able to get it to work.

This definitely seems to be a kernel-options issue though so if you
focus your efforts there you may be able to find a solution somehow.

Good luck.


Chris

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