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I am trying to kickstart an Ubuntu 15.10 installation, but the default option at the boot menu is not picked up for some reason.

The syntax seems fine, and if I manually chose any of the options, It boots as it should, but the problem is that the default section on the isolinux/txt.cfg is completely neglected and after timeout it boots automatically from the first option.

Here is a sample if the isolinux/txt.cfg file:

default option2
label option1
  menu label ^1 Kickstart controller
  kernel /install/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz ks=cdrom:/ks/ks-option1.cfg ---
label option2
  menu label ^2 Kickstart compute1
  kernel /install/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz ks=cdrom:/ks/ks-option2.cfg ---
label install
  menu label ^Install Ubuntu Server
  kernel /install/vmlinuz
  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-server.seed vga=788 initrd=/install/initrd.gz quiet ---

... so that in this case, it would still boot from the option1 option.

As a bonus, does someone know how to hide the "pop-up" language selection menu?

Julen Larrucea
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I am not sure how to address your main issue, but for the bonus I found this question which has an answer that points out the syslinux/lang file. Putting an ISO language in there (like en or fr) will choose that language instead of giving you the menu. This fixed that issue for me on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. I have not yet found any authoritative reference for this file.

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