[issue]: kickstart installation for rhel based distributions broken

[ManiacTwister]

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Ventoy Version

1.0.78

What about latest release

Yes. I have tried the latest release, but the bug still exist.

BIOS Mode

Both

Partition Style

MBR

Disk Capacity

32GB

Disk Manufacturer

No response

Image file checksum (if applicable)

No response

Image file download link (if applicable)

No response

What happened?

When doing an kickstart installation of RHEL based distributions (Almalinux, Rocky, Fedora, etc) with an external kickstart file (for example fetched over http), ventoy modfies the ks/inst.ks kernel command line and prepends "/dev/ventoy" to it.

For example inst.ks=http://ks.xxx.tld/xx-backup01.cfg get inst.ks=/dev/ventoy://ks.xxx.tld/xx-backup01.cfg

This is also true for the older ks parameter.

The relevant code can be found here (unfortunately i'm unable to compile ventoy myself, otherwise i would've submitted a patch): https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/v1.0.78/IMG/cpio/ventoy/hook/rhel7/ventoy-hook.sh#L41-L44 https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/v1.0.78/IMG/cpio/ventoy/hook/rhel7/ventoy-hook.sh#L35-L39

and https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/v1.0.78/IMG/cpio/ventoy/hook/openEuler/ventoy-hook.sh#L32-L46 https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/v1.0.78/IMG/cpio/ventoy/hook/openEuler/ventoy-hook.sh#L38-L42

[ventoy]

@ManiacTwister Please try this CI release: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/actions/runs/2655426868 https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_github_ci.html

[ventoy]

@ManiacTwister The latest 1.0.79 release should fix it.

[ManiacTwister]

@ventoy thanks - i'm currently on vacation - i'll test it as soon as possible. :)

[didierm]

This is still an issue when booting e.g. the AlmaLinux 9.2 DVD : /dev/ventoy: gets prepended to the inst.ks= parameter value, rendering a kickstart installation impossible.

(tested with Ventoy versions 1.0.79 and latest 1.0.94).