On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/2012 08:06 AM, William of BHE wrote: >> >> Can you post your grub.conf lines? And maybe what kind of NICs you're >> using? Logs? Why the pxeboot kernel & initrd if you're not using pxe? >> > title SL6.2 Installer > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=64063 ks=nfs:<IP > ADDR>:/export/install/kickstart/hostname.ks \ > lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us biosdevname=0 ksdevice=link > rdblacklist=nouveau \ > nomodeset vnc vncpassword=<password> sshd sshpw --username=<loginid> > \ > <password> > initrd /initrd.img > > I added backslashes for newlines so that would be readable here. It's all > one line in grub.conf. I usually do pxe boot for installs, but I have a few > systems in other buildings with no monitor and no keyboard hooked up, so if > I can get this working when it comes time to upgrade a system by installing > the latest SL release would be a big win. One nic is a broadcom BCM5703X > embedded on the motherboard, that's the active NIC. There's an add-on card > Intel 82541PI, that is not hooked up to anything at this time. > > After talking with a co-worker we had the thought that some of these > parameters might need to be on a separate append line in grub.conf which > would make it look like a pxeboot file. Gonna try that next.
There's no "append" in grub; it's a feature of syslinux.
