On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Anders
Blomdell<anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In previous versions of Fedora (i.e. Fedora-9), it was possible to do a PXE-boot
> of a rescue image, by supplying a ks.cfg that looked something like:
>
> lang en_US
> keyboard sv-latin1
>
> firewall --disabled
> selinux --disabled
>
> text
>
> network --bootproto dhcp
> nfs --server=<hostaddr> --dir=<dist>/Fedora-9
>
> which was very handy for partitioning disks, etc, with Fedora-10 this stopped
> working due to the following code at the end of rescue.py
>
> if anaconda.isKickstart:
> from kickstart import runPostScripts
> runPostScripts(anaconda)
> else:
> runShell(screen, msgStr)
>
> and with Fedora-11 there is even more weirdness:
>
> if anaconda.isKickstart:
> log.info("No Linux partitions found")
> screen.finish()
> print(_("You don't have any Linux partitions. Rebooting.\n"))
> sys.exit(0)
>
> Is there any supported way to PXE-boot a rescue image for Fedora-11? At the
> moment I have put a slightly modified rescue.py in RHupdates (I know, it's a
> terrible hack...):
>
> --- /tmp/rescue.py 2009-06-02 21:11:19.000000000 +0200
> +++ rescue.py 2009-08-17 18:10:20.000000000 +0200
> @@ -193,6 +193,9 @@
> screen.finish()
>
> def runRescue(anaconda, instClass):
> + if anaconda.id.ksdata.interactive.interactive:
> + log.info("Fall back to interactive rescue mode (useful for PXE)")
> + anaconda.isKickstart = False
> for file in [ "services", "protocols", "group", "joe", "man.config",
> "nsswitch.conf", "selinux", "mke2fs.conf" ]:
> try:
>
>
> /Anders
>
I did a simple variant that had this in the pxe/syslinux menu and
passed it as a kernel cmdline option like this:
label 3
kernel vmlinuz
IPAPPEND 2
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=32705 ksdevice=bootif rescue
noipv6 dns=10.109.3.240 method=http://10.109.0.46/repo/DVD
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