FC7 kickstart installation,

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Tue Sep 25 19:33:44 UTC 2007


Ian Brown wrote:
> Michael,
> Thanks,
> The thing is that changing a line and pressing "b" did not do the job.
> (whereas in ordinary grub I use it all the time and it works)
> nor did "enter" and changing the line worked.
>
> It seems to me that this is not an ordinary GRUB; the fact is that in
> ordinary grub
> you press "E" to edit a menu entry and here you press "TAB" to edit a
> menu entry.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>   

You're right.   I should have thought of that.

The menu is using syslinux, not grub.

Per Peter Jones on #fedora-devel, "escape" will get you to the "boot:" 
prompt.

--Michael








> On 9/24/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ian Brown wrote:
>>     
>>>       Any idea what should I do in order to start a kickstart configuration
>>>       when installing FC7 ?
>>>
>>>       I want to add that I am of course aware of other options (like
>>>       booting this machine with FC6/FC5 installation DVD, and then running
>>>       linux ks=http://192.168.0.10/ks.cfg, but I want to be able to do it
>>>       with installation DVD of FC7 (x86_64).
>>>
>>>       
>> Command line editing should "just work".   Typically I think I type "b"
>> to boot, but I don't
>> recall any changes either.
>>
>> One point though -- you shouldn't use the other distro's install CD/DVD
>> to install a distro that
>> is not matched to it.   Since the initrd from the CD is different, it
>> shouldn't work.
>>
>> If you get fed up with media, you could set up a local boot server.
>> Ex:  http://cobbler.et.redhat.com :)
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>>       Any ideas?
>>>
>>>       Regards,
>>>       Ian
>>>
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