Re: Boot a pungi DVD and access a kickstart file [SOLVED]

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 07/30/2012 02:01 PM, Jos Vos wrote:
>  To answer my own question, to help others when googling this:
>
>  On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:46:48PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to generate a custom spin with pungi *and* add a kickstart
> > file (and be able to use that).  The custom spin works, I also can
> > add a kickstart file to the DVD (using growisofs), but I don't seem
> > to be able to access it.
> >
> > I tried both of these boot options:
> >
> >     ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg
> >     ks=file:/run/initramfs/live/ks.cfg
> >
> > Using the first method, the installer stops with:
> >
> >     dracut Warming: Unable to process initqueue
> >     Dropping to debug shell.
> >
> > The second attempt continues a bit further (it starts services) and
> > finally stops with:
> >
> >     The following problem occurred on line 0 of the kickstart file:
> >     Unable to open input kickstart file: Could not open/read
> file:///run/install/ks.cfg
>
>  The correct boot option seems to need a device name, e.g.
>
>      ks=cdrom:/dev/sr0:/ks.cfg
>
>  and now it works.  This appearantly is listed wrong in
>
>      http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#Boot_CD-ROM
>
>  but I found the correct answer in
>
>      http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options#ks
>
>  Maybe someone can update the wrong info.
>  
Thanks for sharing the solution!

Germán.

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Germán A. Racca
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