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

"Germán A. Racca" german.racca at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 17:08:17 UTC 2012


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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