ks.cfg crashes install

[Gobbledegeek]

Well The crash doesn't give me time to switch screens with ALT-F3. It
promptly reboots. Screen Blanking is the last thing.

Rgrds
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bill Schoolcraft <bill at wiliweld.com>
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:23:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: ks.cfg crashes install
> At Mon, 8 Aug 2005 it looks like Philip Rowlands composed:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Gobbledegeek wrote:
> >
> >> Well in my case, anaconda crashes before first screen - screen blanks
> >> immediately on crash. Works ok without ks. Is the sequence of commands
> >> important in ks.cfg?
> >
> > %packages should follow anaconda "commands"; %post should follow
> > %packages. Within these sections, order is irrelevent.
> >
> > What error message do you see when anaconda crashes. What's the very
> > last thing to happen/print before the crash?
> >
> 
> Hello Family,
> 
> I believe, from my experience, that if you go and look at the
> console on screen <ALT>+<F3> it will show you the stdout of what
> command was being issued when failure occurred and the previous
> successful commands.  It's like a running "tail -f" on
> /var/log/messages
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
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> Bill Schoolcraft
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Chowdhury, Chandan Dutta" <chandan-dutta.chowdhury at hp.com>
> To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:54:51 +0530
> Subject: Getting install log on a remote machine
> Hello All,
> 
> I want to get the install time log on a remote machine, so that if I am
> away from the console of the machine being installed I can still have
> access to the anaconda logs of the machine being installed.
> 
> Is there a way to do this in kickstart pre install script (asking
> anaconda to send logs to a network log server) ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Chandan
> 
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