[CentOS] Kickstart installation error

James Pearson james-p at moving-picture.com
Thu Aug 18 14:11:01 UTC 2011


Anshul Chauhan wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Dhcp seems to be working fine as i'm getting the ip on my client and its
> booting with prelinux but after
> starting it gives this error after detecting all the hardware and trying for
> the kickstart file
> *
> Kickstart Error : Error opening kickstart file (null) bad address*
> 
> 
> this is my prelinux files
> 
> *[root at localhost ~]# cat /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default*
> default local
> timeout 100
> prompt 1
> display msgs/boot.msg
> F1 msgs/boot.msg
> F2 msgs/general.msg
> F3 msgs/expert.msg
> F4 msgs/param.msg
> F5 msgs/rescue.msg
> F7 msgs/snake.msg
> 
> label local
>   localboot 1
> 
> label 0
>   localboot 1
> 
> label 1
>   kernel CentosFTP/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=CentosFTP/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7000 ks=/var/ftp/pub/ks.cfg
> 
> *[root at localhost ~]# cat /tftpboot/linux-install/CentosFTP/ks.cfg*
> #use FTP installation media
> url --url ftp://192.168.0.1/pub/ks.cfg
> 
> checked the NFS share its working fine and FTP also seems to be working fine
> on browser.

The ks syntax on append line doesn't look right - I think you should 
just use "ks=ftp://192.168.0.1/pub/ks.cfg"

James Pearson




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