I figured it out myself! What a surprise? Evidently in my quest, I had placed a ks.cfg file in the initrd.img on the floppy. I learned this from using virtual console two and looking at the ks.cfg file. I used: cat ks.cfg | less Then I realized that I was using the wrong ks file. I think there is a problem when using commands from the syslinux boot prompt also. I haven't tested it yet but if your syslinux.cfg file has: append = "ks=<whatever> initrd=initrd.img local" It doesn't seem to let you override that at the boot prompt...anyone confirm or deny that? As for the --opts thing: I looked at the original modules.conf file options (mkkickstart doesn't add these to the device line) and used those. For example, I see in my modules.conf file on a working machine: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=3 I put in my ks.cfg file: device ethernet ne --opts "io-0x300 irq=3" This works nicely for me. I'm doing more testing...I let you know how it goes. Mike Michael Barsalou barjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
