I am trying to boot a box with a 7.3 boot floppy I created. At the boot
prompt I type:
linux ks=nfs:<dhcp server>:/export/kscfg/
I can see the box connecting to the DHCP box via logs. In my DHCP config
file I have the following 2 lines:
filename "/export/RHL_ISOs/7.3/cfg_files/kscfg/ks.cfg";
next-server <dhcp server>;
I would like to do this so that when we do installs the floppy can have
the "ks=nfs:<dhcp server>:/export/kscfg/" hardcoded via the syslinux.cfg
file. By doing it this way I can control via the dhcp server rather than
the floppy which ks.cfg file to use. I should also note that these
machines are being used in a cluster as compute nodes and are located in
a server room where another dhcp server already exists, therefore if I
don't explicitly include a dhcp server at the boot: prompt then the
other dhcp server may ackowledge this compute node's request...
Can this be done? It would appear that once I pass an argument to the
booted kernel on the boot floppy the entire boot procedure is set in
stone and the box will only boot with a <node's ip address>-kickstart
(1.2.3.4-kickstart) file is present.
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Log in to Single user mode. At the LILO boot prompt type in :-
'linux 1 init=/bin/sh root=/dev/hdaN' mount rw (where N is the
number of your root partition). Then change the password for
root with the command: '#passwd'
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