... i was poking around inside the boot floppy, and reading the syslinux docs, and i just want to make sure i understand the layout of the syslinux.cfg file to continue learning about kickstart (and to better understand forrest taylor's missive on fixing the loader, etc). the salient part of the syslinux.cfg file: ... default linux ... label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 vga=788 ... label ks kernel vmlinuz append ks initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 ... according to the docs, if you type the name of a label, the info for that label is used to determine which kernel to boot and which options get passed to the kernel. fair enough. note that, in the standard boot.img floppy image that comes with red hat 7.2, there is a "linux" label *and* a "ks" label. i've always thought that, to do a net-based kickstart install, i had to type: boot: linux ks but from the above, it looks as if i could just type: boot: ks since that will invoke the other label line. the only effective difference is that one way of doing it will add a "vga=788" option, and the other won't. am i reading this correctly? granted, it's not a big deal, i'm just curious. and, of course, if i got ambitious, i could add extra stanzas to that file and cut myself a custom boot floppy. rday p.s. as i see it, if i wanted to do any variation of a kickstart install that required me to type "linux ks=<something>", there is no alternative for *that*. but "linux ks" can, as it appears, be abbreviated just as "ks" at the boot prompt, right?
