RedHat Enterprise/CentOS Kickstart with Bonding

In order to set up the bonded interfaces (in 802.3ad mode) when first booting, you'll need to supply the following arguments to kickstart:


ks=http://name_of_apache_server/myconfig.cfg ip=your.ip.address netmask=yournetmask gateway=yourgateway dns=nameserver1,nameserver2 hostname=yourfqdn bond=bond0:eth0,eth1:mode=802.3ad:miimon:100

Kickstart Command Line Options/Arguments

Here are a bunch of handy arguments taken from this page:


Redhat Documentation

So, typically I interrupt a Redhat boot and choose the following:


(appended to the normal boot line)

ksdevice=eth0 ip=10.2.3.4 netmask=255.255.254.0 gateway=10.2.3.1 dns=10.10.10.2,10.10.10.4 ks=http://url/to/my/kickstart.cfg