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Re: kickstarting from eth0 ethernet card
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Mansour <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:11:38 +1000
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Hi Sean,

> Ah! just went through that myself . . .
> 
> You have to append "ksdevice=eth0" to the kernel line in whatever 
> boot loader you are using.
> 
> I'm doing a netboot kickstart using the Redhat tools so my 
> /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default file includes:
> 
> <snip>
> label 1
>   kernel SL42_64/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=SL42_64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 
> ks=http://192.168.0.129/nodes-cfg/nodes-ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0
> <snip>

I just asked this question from Jarek as I use the same PXE method :)

Thanks guys for the help, am testing it now.

Michael.

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