Kickstart a Fedora (Anaconda) Install on EC2

[Raphaël De GIUSTI]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora
EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other
practices I found on the internet.

But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an
installation using anaconda.

So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with
vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this :

default 0
timeout 3
title RH-Like-OS
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg
        initrd /boot/initrd.img

And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install.

The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If
someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575

Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst,
then failing on a mmu_update.

So, here come my questions:

I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this.
And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from
scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing.

Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm
quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand
:-)

Thank you.

raphdg
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