On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 18:18, Bob Arendt wrote: > I'm setting up a kickstart install. I can see how the initial kernel > line has a "ks" or "ks=nfs:server.example.com:/mydir/ks.cfg" parameter, > but what actually executes this information? I can't find anything > in the kernel source that actually executes this. Kickstart is a userspace (not a kernel) feature... Basically, once the kernel has booted up, it launches init which, in turn, runs the initscripts. Those initscripts then parse the kernel commandline (/proc/cmdline) to check for parameters like "ks".
