I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other practices I found on the internet.
But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an installation using anaconda.
So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this :
default 0
timeout 3
title RH-Like-OS
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg
initrd /boot/initrd.img
And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install.
The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums
Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst, then failing on a mmu_update.
So, here come my questions:
I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this.
And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing.
Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand :-)
Thank you.
raphdg
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