PXE Fedora 23 with Anaconda 20?

stan stanl-fedorauser at vfemail.net
Thu Feb 4 22:31:20 UTC 2016


On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:25:06 -0800
CLOSE Dave <Dave.Close at 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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