Re: reboot during kickstart

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 12:35, Richard Black wrote:
> I'm working with Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Advanced Server 2.1 and I
> need a way to instrument a reboot during a kickstart installation.  The
> reason for this is so that I can remotely abort the current kickstart
> installation and then start a new one (I am doing pxe installs).  I
> already have the remote part worked out, I just need a way to cause
> a reboot on the system.
> 
> - Is there something in /proc that I can write to?
> - What about killing some process - I didn't have much luck other
> than in locking up the machine.
> - What about an executable already available in anaconda?
> 
> I've tried without success:
> reboot     (not found)
> halt         (not found)
> shutdown     (not found)
> init 6       (doesn't appear to listen to parameters)
> killall5    (locks the system up - not a reboot)

> I tried killing the 2nd linuxrc (ps ax), but nothing.
> I tried killing the 1st linuxrc, this locked the system up - no reboot.
> 

Do you want to reboot BEFORE the kickstart is finished?

-sv