[CentOS] kickstart won't kick-off via network

Tue Feb 3 17:39:54 UTC 2009
Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org>

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:17 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Isaac Hailperin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:42 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >> Isaac Hailperin wrote on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:45:44 +0100:
> >>
> >>> append initrd=distro/centos5.2/initrd.img ramdisk_size=7494
> >>> ks=http://9.0.0.1/all/profiles/cluto_centos5.2/cnode/ks.cfg
> >> this is not enough, you have to tell PXE about the network, which nic
> >> to
> >> use etc. I think there is a tutorial about doing PXE instalaltions on
> >> the
> >> wiki.
> >>
> > You are right: "ksdevice=eth1" did the trick.
> > Found at
> > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart
> 
> The order of NIC detection/naming at bootup seems to be more or less 
> random as of Centos 5.x.  How do you know which name to choose here?

In order to avoid this, you can use the "ksdevice=bootif" to use the
interface from which the system booted...

	-I