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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