Are you doing pxe-boot? If so, then I don't think you need local.cfg? You should be able to just modify /tftpboot/default/pxelinux.cfg...
Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Paul Newman > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:40 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Problem with autoinstalling > Centos4.2 on Dell 450 > > Hello. > > I am using version 3.6.3 with CentOS4 on the x86 platform. > > I wrote about a problem with the ramdisk of the autoinstall kernel. > Thanks for your assistance, I've gotten past the ramdisk problem. > > Unfortunately, the autoinstall kernel is not seeing my floppy > drive or > at least is not seeing the /local.cfg file installed there. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? > > Thank you for helping out. > > p > > Paul Newman wrote: > > Hi, again. > > > > Thanks for your assistance. still no joy though. see below > for details. > > > >> You need to modify your kernel append option with a larger > >> RAMDISK_SIZE (I usually use 70,000). Hopefully that should work. > > > > > > That did get me booted into the syslinux image. (FYI, the > exact syntax > > on the boot command line is as follows: > > > > kernel ramdisk_size=70000 > > > > character case is significant.) > > > > I mentioned that I was using a non-bootable floppy with a msdos > > filesystem and a local.cfg file in the root dir to provide the > > networking and image information. > > > > The floppy disk is not being detected by the fd driver, I > guess. (There > > is a disk in the drive and it has the file and it is > readable.) here are > > the messages: > > > > read_kernel_append_parameters > > > > read_local_cfg > > Checking for floppy diskette. > > YUO MAY SEE SOME "wrong magic" ERRORS HERE AND THAT IS NORMAL. > > No floppy diskette in drive. > > > > the rc continues till it fails to get a response out of > dhcps (we don't > > run one). > > > > any idea why the diskette isn't being detected ? (the > local.cfg has unix > > line enders, not msdos, e.g. LF characters only. could that > be a problem?) > > > > p > > > -- > "It was like being in a room at home, only with thousands of little > friends," -- Kanchana Ketkaew, the Scopion queen > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend > the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new > coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&; > dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
