I've been trying to get a new working PXE installation for F23 and it isn't working. I just noticed what might be the problem. Although I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the F23 server version archive, when the installation starts it shows F20 in the upper-right and checking via Alt-F2 shows that it is Anaconda v20 that's running. What could be responsible for that? What part of my PXE configuration might be wrong?
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 19:38 -0800, Dave Close wrote:
I've been trying to get a new working PXE installation for F23 and it isn't working. I just noticed what might be the problem. Although I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the F23 server version archive, when the installation starts it shows F20 in the upper-right and checking via Alt-F2 shows that it is Anaconda v20 that's running. What could be responsible for that? What part of my PXE configuration might be wrong?
I've just checked on our PXE system, and we have Anaconda v23. Are you sure you're using the correct initrd?
Jonathan
I wrote:
I've been trying to get a new working PXE installation for F23 and it isn't working. I just noticed what might be the problem. Although I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the F23 server version archive, when the installation starts it shows F20 in the upper-right and checking via Alt-F2 shows that it is Anaconda v20 that's running. What could be responsible for that? What part of my PXE configuration might be wrong?
It turns out that the PXE entry (tftp) includes three elements, vmlinuz, initrd, and inst.repo. This despite the fact that the kickstart file also includes the installation repo reference in the "url" entry. In this cases, the inst.repo was wrong.
I find it strange that the design requires the same reference in two places (inst.repo and url) and doesn't verify they are the same.
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:25:06 -0800 CLOSE Dave Dave.Close@us.thalesgroup.com wrote:
I wrote:
I've been trying to get a new working PXE installation for F23 and it isn't working. I just noticed what might be the problem. Although I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the F23 server version archive, when the installation starts it shows F20 in the upper-right and checking via Alt-F2 shows that it is Anaconda v20 that's running. What could be responsible for that? What part of my PXE configuration might be wrong?
It turns out that the PXE entry (tftp) includes three elements, vmlinuz, initrd, and inst.repo. This despite the fact that the kickstart file also includes the installation repo reference in the "url" entry. In this cases, the inst.repo was wrong.
I find it strange that the design requires the same reference in two places (inst.repo and url) and doesn't verify they are the same.
This is a good candidate for a bugzilla at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ since it should validate, or one shouldn't be present, or it should be documented that one overrides the other.
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