PXE Boot 20.04 LTS not booting with Kickstart file

user848432

4/3/23, 2:50 AM

I have multiple server install in my PXE file using kickstart file. All work well including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Somehow Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is not booting through kickstart. All document point to using live CD which is not non-interactive installation.

Here is PXE for 18.04 which works PERFECTLY:

label auto-ubuntu-18.04-server
    menu label Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic)
    kernel ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64/linux
    append initrd=ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64/initrd.gz net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ip=dhcp preseed/url=tftp://pxe.server.com/preseed/ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64-preseed.cfg preseed/interactive=false ks=http://pxe.server.com/ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64/ks.cfg live-installer/net-image=http://pxe.server.com/ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64/install/filesystem.squashfs ramdisk_size=131072 root=/dev/rd/0 rw --

Here is PXE for 20.04 which is NOT working:

label auto-ubuntu-20.04-server
    menu label Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal)
    kernel ubuntu-20.04-server-amd64/vmlinuz
    initrd ubuntu-20.04-server-amd64/initrd
    append net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ip=dhcp preseed/url=tftp://pxe.server.com/preseed/ubuntu-20.04-server-amd64-preseed.cfg  preseed/interactive=false ks=http://pxe.server.com/ubuntu-20.04-server-amd64/ks.cfg live-installer/net-image=http://pxe.server.com/ubuntu-20.04-server-amd64/casper/filesystem.squashfs ramdisk_size=1500000 root=/dev/rd/0 rw --

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Neil

4/3/23, 3:24 AM

not working how, you need to add more info just saying its "not working"

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EN: PXE Boot 20.04 LTS not booting with Kickstart file

TH: PXE Boot 20.04 LTS ไม่บูตด้วยไฟล์ Kickstart

RO: PXE Boot 20.04 LTS nu pornește cu fișierul Kickstart

RU: PXE Boot 20.04 LTS не загружается с файлом Kickstart

VI: PXE Boot 20.04 LTS không khởi động được với tệp Kickstart

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