Solved - Kickstart hang at "Installing Bootloader"

[Peter Fales]

Oops.  My face is red.  This was a stupid pilot error - I wasn't really
using the ks.cfg file I thought I was.   

For the record, my attempt to say

	bootloader --useLilo  --location=mbr

didn't work too well, especially since I was explicitly excluding the
Lilo package!  The fact that this causes an unhandled python exception
might be a bug in anaconda, but it's minor one, as getting rid 
of --useLilo caused things to work a lot better.

Thanks to those who responded!

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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:51:05AM -0500, Peter Fales wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> My ks.cfg file includes:
> 
> ##########################################################
> #System bootloader configuration
> bootloader   --location=mbr
> 
> # This line removes any existing linux partitions
> clearpart --linux
> ##########################################################
> 
> The working system has a small VFAT hda1 partition, and the failing 
> system has a small NTFS hda1 partition.   I want the kickstart to wipe
> out any previous linux installs but keep the non-linux partition.
> This is unchanged from what worked on both systems in RH9.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Fales			  Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436
> N9IYJ            		  2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033
> internet: psfales at lucent.com	  Naperville, IL 60566-7033
> 			 	  work:	(630) 979-8031
> 
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:54:47PM +0530, johnpaul wrote:
> > hi
> >     
> > in the kickstart file what information have you gave about the boot loader
> > 
> > regards
> > john paul
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Peter Fales" <psfales at lucent.com>
> > To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:40 PM
> > Subject: Kickstart hang at "Installing Bootloader"
> > 
> > 
> > > We've been using the RedHat 9 kickstart for a while.  Now, I'm trying to 
> > > set up a kickstart of Fedora Core 2.   So far, I've tested it on two 
> > > machines.   On the first machine (VMware Virtual PC) it works fine.  On
> > > the second machine (Dell Optiplex GX110), it mostly works, but it 
> > > consistently stalls at the "Installing Bootloader" screen.   There 
> > > are no obvious errors on any of the Alt-F screens, and if you hit 
> > > "Enter" while it is sitting on that screen, the kickstart continues (but
> > > the bootloader is not installed).
> > > 
> > > Any ideas on where to look next?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Peter Fales   Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436
> > > N9IYJ              2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033
> > > internet: psfales at lucent.com   Naperville, IL 60566-7033
> > >   work: (630) 979-8031
> > > 
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