Problem booting from PXE/kickstart on FC7

[Gary Schlachter]

Mike Wright wrote:
> Gary Schlachter wrote:
>>
>> Mike Wright wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Schlachter wrote:
>>>
>>>>    I am trying to use PXE/kickstart to load FC7 on an appliance.  
>>>> My initrd.img and vmlinuz are from FC7 and are loading but my 
>>>> console output looks like the following:
>>>
>>>
>>> <big snip />
>>>
>>>> Switching to new root and running init.
>>>> umounting old /dev
>>>> umounting old /proc
>>>> umounting old /sys
>>>> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
>>>> Booting has failed.
>>>> Kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
>>>>
>>>> Any and all thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> I'll take a stab at it.
>>>
>>> I nfs install f7 using pxeboot and kickstart.  I seem to remember 
>>> struggling with something similar.  It turned out that in the 
>>> pxeboot stanza I had broken the APPEND line using "\".  Big no-no.  
>>> The "\" is for readability.  The APPEND line and all its options 
>>> must be on a single line.  Once I'd done that it worked correctly.
>>>
>>> If that doesn't solve the problem would you post your pxeboot 
>>> stanza? Might be a clue there.
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> Mike Wright :m)
>>>
>> I finally got my initrd.img to load.  I found a post about changing 
>> the init script in the initrd.img from
>>
>>    mount /sysroot
>>
>>       to
>>
>>    mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /sysroot
>>
>> and that did the trick.  However now my kickstart file is not being 
>> used.  My pxelinux.xfg/default looks like
>>
>>       label linux
>>       kernel vmlinuz
>>       append initrd=initrd.fc7.img 
>> ks=nfs:10.254.13.1:/home/tftpboot/kickstart/10.254.13.112-kickstart 
>> ramdisk_size=9216
>>
>> I have tried with and without the ksdevice=eth0 on the "append" line 
>> as well.  It is like the "ks=" is being ignored by the kernel alotugh 
>> I can see it as a kernel option on the console.
>
> Hmmm, couple possibilities:
>
> Is the nfs server running and has the kickstart file been exported?  
> Is that machine running iptables and are the required nfs ports open?
>
> When I was trying to debug my setup tcpdump was definitely my best 
> friend.
>

Yes to all since I am able to boot other systems with FC1 from the same 
setup.  My PXE prompt has multiple options one of which is Fedora Core 1 
and another is Fedora Core 7.