I have been working on preseeding during network booting. I got a network preseed file to work, but I'm having trouble putting the preseed.cfg file in the initrd.
First, I know this is probably not the correct way to modify the initrd, but here is what I did: Uncompress the initrd: gunzip initrd.gz Mount on a loopback device: mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 initrd /mnt Copy the preseed file into the initrd file system: cp preseed.cfg /mnt/preseed.cfg Unmount: umount /mnt Compress the initrd: gzip initrd When I boot with this initrd I can drop to a shell and see that /preseed.cfg is there. But the installer won't use the values in the preseed file. I've tried with and without passing the kernel parameter: preseed/file=/preseed.cfg But in either case, the preseed values are not used. Am I missing something obvious? Does the netboot initrd not support preseed files inside the initrd? Do I need to build my own customized netboot images? If there is documentation on this, please point me in the right direction. And if I didn't explain the problem clearly enough, please let me know and I'll try and clarify. Thanks for your time! -- Steve Feehan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
