Kickstart via PXE/NFS

[Jeffrey Law]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:29 -0400, SSTinsley at upsfreight.com wrote:
> 
> 
> kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/14/2007 09:53:40 AM:
> 
> > Adding ksdevice=xxx to the append line for the boot should get rid 
> > of the interface options. Kickstart doesn't know the config until 
> > after it brings the interface up.
> >  
> 
> I am specifying the ksdevice in the pxelinux.cfg file. I also set the
> IPAPPEND 2 option which I understood would pass in the IP address of
> the boot server for use as the IP during the  
> install. 
How long is the line specifying all your options (ks device, ks 
location, initrd, etc etc?  There's a hard limit of 255 characters
and if you exceed it the options are silently truncated which 
obviously leads to unexpected results.

Jeff