Is there a way during %pre to determine what the console is? My PXE setup has several options for installation, one of which is booting kernel with "append console=ttyS0" for serial installation, rather than VGA -- the person doing the install can choose. At the moment, to use the different console configurations I specify a different ks.cfg file with different bootloader args, e.g. a PXE with the above console setting would use this: bootloader --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8" whereas a PXE with no serial console specified might just use: bootloader or other similar permutations in each ks.cfg file. If something could be done in %pre to determine what the booted kernel believes is the console, I imagine an %include file could be constructed based on the result, which would be populated with "bootloader <args>" appropriate for the type of installation console being used. I was poking around e.g. in /proc/tty/ but nothing I see there seems to be applicable to this purpose. In a nutshell, I'm trying to craft a modular ks.cfg file rather than separate ks.cfg files for VGA and serial console. Same sort of idea as many others have done in %pre , e.g. to derive disk number/type/size and build a %include file with "part <args>". Hints/ideas/etc. welcome. Cheers, sr. -- || Steve Rikli ||| You can use all the quantitative data you || || Systems Administrator ||| can get, but you still have to distrust || || ||| it and use your own intelligence and || || sr@xxxxxxxxxxxx ||| judgment. - Alvin Toffler ||
