On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor)
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> On 03/06/2012 08:06 AM, William of BHE wrote:
>>
>> Can you post your grub.conf lines? And maybe what kind of NICs you're
>> using? Logs? Why the pxeboot kernel & initrd if you're not using pxe?
>>
> title SL6.2 Installer
>    root (hd0,0)
>    kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=64063 ks=nfs:<IP
> ADDR>:/export/install/kickstart/hostname.ks \
>        lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us biosdevname=0 ksdevice=link
> rdblacklist=nouveau \
>        nomodeset vnc vncpassword=<password> sshd sshpw --username=<loginid>
> \
> <password>
>    initrd /initrd.img
>
> I added backslashes for newlines so that would be readable here. It's all
> one line in grub.conf. I usually do pxe boot for installs, but I have a few
> systems in other buildings with no monitor and no keyboard hooked up, so if
> I can get this working when it comes time to upgrade a system by installing
> the latest SL release would be a big win. One nic is a broadcom BCM5703X
> embedded on the motherboard, that's the active NIC. There's an add-on card
> Intel 82541PI, that is not hooked up to anything at this time.
>
> After talking with a co-worker we had the thought that some of these
> parameters might need to be on a separate append line in grub.conf which
> would make it look like a pxeboot file. Gonna try that next.

There's no "append" in grub; it's a feature of syslinux.