[gPXE] gPXE RHEL kickstart without DHCP

[Steve]

Hi guys,

I would like to automate the server build using gPXE without having DHCP server running on the network.

The following configuration I came up so far

#!gpxe
ifstat
set net0/ip <host IP>
set net0/gateway <gw address>
set net0/netmask <netmask>
set net0/dns <DNS address>
ifopen net0
kernel http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/vmlinuz
initrd http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/initrd.img
boot

The server boots fine by downloading and running the kernel images, but unable to figure how to add the kickstart configuration file to this config.

I tried to add as a 'boot' parameter, but it didn't start to install the binaries.

e.g.

boot  ks=http://<rhn satellite>/linux/rhel64/kickstart/ics-5.3.0.nolvm.ks

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Steve

[Matthew Helton]

You're close...

 

Try

 

#!gpxe
ifstat
set net0/ip <host IP>
set net0/gateway <gw address>
set net0/netmask <netmask>
set net0/dns <DNS address>
ifopen net0

initrd http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/initrd.img

chain http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/vmlinuz ks=http://<rhn satellite>/linux/rhel64/kickstart/ics-5.3.0.nolvm.ks

 

 

And while you're at it, try iPXE, the maintained successor to gPXE... http://www.ipxe.org

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