[CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file

[Patrick Lists]

On 07/20/2011 09:49 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote:
>> "Mounting a file system via NFS now defaults to NFSv4."
>
> Yes, this sounds like the correct explanation!  Our RHEL5.6 PXE/TFTP/NFS
> server is certainly configured for NFSv3.  I haven't explored the NFSv4
> approach though.
>
> How can we tweak the CentOS6 Kickstart installation to explicitly
> request an NFSv3 service in the PXE config file:

If there is such an option then I could not find it. Maybe someone else 
knows how to force NFSv3.

>       kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz
>       append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network
> ks=nfs:130.226.86.4:/u/rpm/kickstart/ks-centos-6-clean-i386.cfg
>
> To rephrase my question: Where do we find documentation for the vmlinuz
> append flags shown above, in particular documentation of the ks=... flags?

Try the Installation Guide: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/

> Hopefully there'll be some way to force an NFSv3 mount in stead of the
> default NFSv4?Or perhaps we need to use http: and stop using nfs: with
> CentOS6?

I have used NFS (v3 & v4) and HTTP and for me HTTP was faster so I 
continued to use HTTP.

Regards,
Patrick