Issues with kickstarting RHEL3 with Dell PE 1950
Mukarram Syed
muksyed at stanford.edu
Wed Apr 30 05:41:00 UTC 2008
Hi,
Our Kickstart has been working fine with RHEL4 and EL4.no problems.
But today I added a RHEL3 menu and it's corresponding ks.cfg file. This is
to test our legacy RHEL3 servers which are difficult to get rid of at this
time. I could pxe boot and I get the menu. I choose the correct option
(17) and it loads up the appropriate vmlinuz and initrd images, then loads
up anaconda and instead of getting the network it shows me the Language
menu. I have about 16 other options for RHEL4 and EL4 and they all work
fine. I have been troubleshooting this for almost 3 hours now and no luck.
Suggestions would be appreciated.
My take on this is that with RHEL4 it takes all the drivers for the PE1950,
for RHEL3 I don't think it contains all the drivers so it just does not load
them with anaconda. Can anyone clarify this?
Here is my setup:
My /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default file: Label 16 works but
Label 17 does not.
label 16
kernel RHELAS32_U6/vmlinuz
append nofb
ks=http://171.67.39.130/RHELAS32_U6/RedHat/ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg
initrd=RHELAS32_U6/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 lang= devfs=nomount
ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS0,9600 ipappend 1
label 17
kernel RHEL3/vmlinuz
append nofb
ks=http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3/RedHat/ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg
initrd=RHEL3/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 lang= devfs=nomount
ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS0,9600 ipappend 1
My /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/boot.msg file (menu):
16. Base (X Window) ASIA Install for Tripwire Server
17. Base (X Window) RHEL3
My /var/www/html/RHEL3/RedHat/ ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg file (ks.cfg
equivalent). I could http to: http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3
#System language
lang en_US
#Language modules to install
langsupport en_US
#System keyboard
keyboard us
#System mouse
mouse
#Sytem timezone
timezone America/Los_Angeles
#Root password
rootpw welcome
#Reboot after installation
reboot
#Install OS instead of upgrade
install
#Use Web installation
url --url http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3
#System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr
#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
#Partition clearing information
clearpart --all --initlabel
#Disk partitioning information
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary
part / --fstype ext3 --size 6000 --asprimary
part swap --recommended --asprimary
part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 2000
part /opt --fstype ext3 --size 3000 --grow
#System authorization infomation
auth --useshadow --enablemd5
#Network information
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
#Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled
#SELinux configuration
selinux --disabled
#Do not configure XWindows
skipx
#Package install information
%packages --resolvedeps
@ base-x
# OEM Agent and Oracle Client Requirements:
binutils
compat-db
compat-libstdc++-296
libaio
glibc
glibc-common
gcc
gcc-c++
make
gnome-libs
libstdc++
libstdc++-devel
pdksh
xscreensaver
setarch
control-center
# Other RPMs:
ntp
screen
cvs
emacs
lynx
strace
sysstat
%pre
%post
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