8-15-2005 --------- Boot time command args: ----------------------- expert Turns on special features: - allows partitioning of removable media - prompts for driver disk noshell Do not put a shell on tty2 during install. lowres Force GUI installer to run at 640x480. resolution= Run installer in mode specified, '1024x768' for example. nousb Do not load USB support (helps if install hangs early sometimes). nofb Do not load the VGA16 framebuffer required for doing text-mode installation in some languages nofirewire Do not load support for firewire devices askmethod Do not automatically use the CD-ROM as the install source if we detect a Red Hat Linux CD in your CD-ROM drive. nousbstorage Do not load usbstorage module in loader. May help with device ordering on SCSI systems. noparport Do not attempt to load support for parallel ports noprobe Do not attempt to detect hw, prompts user instead. nonet Do not auto-probe network devices nostorage Do not auto-probe storage devices (SCSI, IDE, RAID) nopcmcia Ignore PCMCIA controller in system. skipddc Skips DDC probe of monitor, may help if its handing system. graphical Force graphical install. Required to have ftp/http use GUI. text Force text mode install. vnc Enable vnc-based installation. You will need to connect to the machine using a vnc client application. vncpassword= Enable a password for the vnc connection. This will prevent someone from inadvertantly connecting to the vnc-based installation. Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well. vncconnect=[:] Once installation is up and running, connect to the vnc client named , and optionally use port . Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well. updates Prompt for floppy containing updates (bug fixes). updates=ftp:// Image containing updates over FTP. updates=http:// Image containing updates over HTTP. isa Prompt user for ISA devices configuration. dd Use a driver disk. driverdisk Same as 'dd'. mediacheck Activates loader code to give user option of testing integrity of install source (if an ISO-based method). rescue Run rescue environment. nomount Don't automatically mount any installed Linux partitions in rescue mode. nopass Don't pass keyboard/mouse info to stage 2 installer, good for testing keyboard and mouse config screens in stage2 installer during network installs. serial Turns on serial console support. ksdevice Takes one of 4 types of argument which tells install what network device to use for kickstart from network: - An argument like 'eth0' naming a specific interface - An argument like 00:12:34:56:78:9a indicating the MAC address of a specific interface - The keyword `link' indicating that the first interface with link up - The keyword `bootif' indicating that the MAC address indicated by the BOOTIF command line option will be used to locate the boot interface. BOOTIF is automagically supplied by pxelinux when you include the option `IPAPPEND 2' in your pxelinux.cfg file ks Kickstart over NFS. ks=cdrom: Kickstart from CDROM ks=nfs: Kickstart from NFS. ks= Kickstart via HTTP. ks=hd: Kickstart via harddrive (dev = 'hda1', for example) ks=file: Kickstart from a file (path = 'fd0/ks.cfg') ks=ftp:// Kickstart from FTP. ks=http:// Kickstart from HTTP. kssendmac Adds HTTP headers to ks=http:// request that can be helpful for provisioning systems. Includes MAC address of all nics in CGI environment variables of the form: "X-RHN-Provisioning-MAC-0: eth0 01:23:45:67:89:ab". dhcpclass= Sends a custom DHCP vendor class identifier. ISC's dhcpcd can inspect this value using "option vendor-class-identifier". upgradeany Don't require an /etc/redhat-release that matches the expected syntax to upgrade. lang= Language to use for the installation. This should be a language which is valid to be used with the 'lang' kickstart command. keymap= Keyboard layout to use. Valid values are those which can be used for the 'keyboard' kickstart command. ip= IP to use for a network installation, use 'dhcp' for DHCP. netmask= Netmask to use for a network installation. gateway= Gateway to use for a network installation. dns= Comma separated list of nameservers to use for a network installation. method=nfs: Use for an NFS installation. method=http:// Use for an HTTP installation method=ftp:// Use for an FTP installation method=hd:/// Use on for a hard drive installation method=cdrom Do a CDROM based installation. vnc Do graphical installation via VNC. Instead of starting a normal X server, vncserver will be started and you can then connect remotely to do the installation. vncpassword= Set a password for the vnc session. vncconnect=[:] Once installation is up and running, connect to the vnc client named , and optionally, on port . Requires 'vnc' option to be specified as well. loglevel= Set the minimum level required for messages to be logged. Values for are debug, info, warning, error, and critical. The default value is info. syslog=[:] Once installation is up and running, send log messages to the syslog process on , and optionally, on port . Requires the remote syslog process to accept connections (the -r option).