Larry Brigman wrote:
> 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
Thanks, works like a charm. This is what I ended up with (repo instead of
method, prescribing keyboard, language and dhcp):
LABEL Rescue
kernel rescue/vmlinuz
ipappend 2
append initrd=rescue/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif keymap=sv-latin1
lang=en_US ip=dhcp repo=nfs:<server>:/export/work/Fedora-11/i386/release rescue
/Anders
--
Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Automatic Control
Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625
P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118
SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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