[ipxe-devel] Debian installer does load preseed

[Ghassan Elrayah]

Thanks Geert. I disabled the line wrapper :D

On 3/31/19 11:10 PM, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 03:05:28PM +0200, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
>> On 3/30/19 8:09 PM, Ghassan Elrayah wrote:
>> I finally could install debian buster fully unattended by using the
>> following Kernel arguments:
>>
>> :d10-dc-node
>> set base-url
>> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/amd64
>> kernel ${base-url}/linux
>> initrd ${base-url}/initrd.gz
>> initrd tftp://ipxe01.server.lej.sprd.net/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed
>> /tmp/debian_buster_node.seed
>> imgargs linux auto vga=normal root=/dev/ram rw
>> file=/tmp/debian_buster_node.seed interface=eno1 fb=false
>> debian-installer=en_US.UTF-8 locale=en_US.UTF-8 kbd-chooser/method=us
>> auto-install/enable=true debconf/frontend=noninteractive priority=critical
>> console-setup/ask_detect=false keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=us
>> keyboard-configuration/modelcode=pc105 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us
>> keyboard-configuration/variant=USA ---
>> boot
>>
>> Network configuration and hostname will be set with DHCP.
>>
>> Thanks every body for helping me out.
>>
> You are welcome.
>
> Below a rewrite of the above "this works for me". My mailer doesn't do auto line wrapper.  ( It does, but I can overrule it ;-)
>
> ---8<---8<---
> #!ipxe
>
> set base-url https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/amd64
>
> kernel ${base-url}/linux auto vga=normal root=/dev/ram rw file=/tmp/debian_buster_node.seed interface=eno1 fb=false debian-installer=en_US.UTF-8 locale=en_US.UTF-8 kbd-chooser/method=us auto-install/enable=true debconf/frontend=noninteractive priority=critical console-setup/ask_detect=false keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=us keyboard-configuration/modelcode=pc105 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us keyboard-configuration/variant=USA ---
>
> initrd ${base-url}/initrd.gz
> initrd tftp://ipxe01.server.lej.sprd.net/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed /tmp/debian_buster_node.seed
>
> boot
> ---8<---8<---
>
> The important change is not using 'imgargs'.
> Quoting https://ipxe.org/cmd/imgargs
>
>
> | Set command-line arguments to be passed to the specified image.
> |
> | This is an obsolete command that is included only for backwards
> | compatibility with existing scripts. You can set the command-line
> | arguments when you download the image using the chain, imgfetch, or
> | kernel commands.
>
>
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers

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Ghassan Elrayah
System Engineer