Location of installation media no longer /tmp/cdrom?

Joel Andres Granados jgranado at redhat.com
Tue May 22 09:05:01 UTC 2007


John Summerfield wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>> --- kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>>> From: Nicholas Byrne <nicholas.byrne at quadriga.com>
>>> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>>> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:04:07 +0100
>>> Subject: Re: Location of installation media no
>>> longer /tmp/cdrom?
>>>
>>> see this thread -
>>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-May/msg00007.html.
>>> It's a bug, the cdrom drive is being unmounted to
>>> early in the ks
>>> process, it manifests itself most commonly on "eject
>>> only" mechanism
>>> type drives because the mount request normally
>>> retracts the draw on
>>> capable devices which is also probably why it wasn't
>>> picked up during
>>> testing.
>>> To fix manually, open up stage2.img and change
>>> dispatch.py, swapping the
>>> lines:
>>>
>>> ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
>>> ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
>>>
>>> for
>>>
>>> ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
>>> ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, I tried editing the stage2.img and
>> creating a new install CD, however I received the
>> following error during the install (from my notes)
>> with that CD:
>>
>>
>> No CentOS CD was found which matches your boot media.
>> Please insert the CentOS CD and press OK to retry.
>
> Perhaps you should grep the source tree to see where that message 
> comes from, it seems well within your capabilities.
>
> Also, the commandline for mkisofs is important. I'm wondering whether 
> there is some little hidden file or directory you missed.

Maybe your missing the .discinfo file
Hope it helps. :)




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