| Matt Bull 2006-08-03, 1:28 pm |
| Hi All,
I'm wondering if someone can describe what the cd boot process is for me for
EL3. I've been trying to get a kickstart build working here for 2 days with
no joy. It's basically continuation of a project someone else has started,
and I'm having to finish.
I'm using a HP DL380 with ilo card, which can mount an iso as a virtual boot
device, building via http.
I've created a boot cd (iso image) using instructions from the redhat site
installation guide for redhat 9 (unsure if there are any major differences
in the process there for EL3?.. cant find anything obvious), copied my
ks.cfg into the isolinux directory and mkisofs'd it.
Mount the boot iso remotely and reboot the box.. it comes up to install but
whatever i type for the boot params it just drops into an interactive
install. I know that the http build tree is good as if I follow the
interactive install through selecting an http install, using the relevant
info manually from the ks.cfg it builds fine.
I was wondering if:
a) This is the correct place to plonk the ks.cfg (even though I've booted it
with "linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg" which seems to have made no difference and
still doesn't work), and
b) Is there a method of getting more debug info from the installer as its
running.. ie. so i can see if its even attempting a ks install.
I've tried lots of different suggestions from %ksappend in a local ks.cfg to
plonking the whole lot on the boot params line but it's as if the installer
is just completely ignoring it all..
I'm not that upto speed on redhat and was wondering if there is some other
configuration option missing within the initrd (which i have rebuilt for the
boot cd adding the ks.cfg aswell which i read somewhere.. but still no joy)
filesystem that could be preventing it from attempting a ks build.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Matt
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