On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 01:06 -0700, Fong Vang wrote: > On 10/13/05, Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/14/05, Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com> wrote: > > > What's the easiest way to disable a kernel module during kickstart? > > > Is there a syslinux command that could be passed in to prevent a > > > module from loading? > > > > Add an entry into /etc/hotplug/blacklist > > > > Is that what you were looking for? > > Not really. I have a motherboard with 2 NICs of different brand. When > trying to kick with CentOS 4.1, these interfaces appear in different > order at various stages of kickstart (mainly pxelinux and Linux > kernel). Unfortunately, the BIOS does not have the option to disable > the interfaces (nor does it have the option to choose which NIC to do > pxeboot). > > It would be nice if one could just tell Linux/Anaconda to not load a > particular kernel module. You could try forcing the interface to be used during the pxe boot by adding ksdevice=eth1 this would force it to use the interface that will be eth0 in the other phase. -- Sean