Kickstarting to VM via ISO image
gene.huft at wachovia.com
gene.huft at wachovia.com
Wed Mar 5 19:43:45 UTC 2008
Kickstart Gurus,
I have a fully contained ISO image of the original RHEL5.1 32-bit source
tree, along with some additional RPMs & a custom ks.cfg file. The goal is
to totally automate the build to a VMware VM via mapping the ISO file to a
virtual CDROM.
I have modified the default isolinux/isolinux.cfg file as follows:
default xander
prompt 1
timeout 600
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 options.msg
F3 general.msg
F4 param.msg
F5 rescue.msg
label xander
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg
label text
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img text
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks initrd=initrd.img
label local
localboot 1
label memtest86
kernel memtest
append -
In my kickstart file, I of cource specify "cdrom". The ISO image will
boot the VM into RedHat's initial screen, but when hit return or let it
time out it, it complains that it cannot find the install media on any
cdrom.
I also tried to put the kickstart file into the initrd.img by
uncompressing image, copying ks.cfg into it, modifying isolinux.cfg to:
append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=file:/ks.cfg
Then recompressed it, moved it into proper place & re-generated ISO image.
Again, the ISO will boot the VM to initial RH screen, but soon there after
get the "cd not found" error.
Is this just a VMware thing? My coworker has no trouble with SuSE builds
working....am I overlooking something simple?
Thanks in advance.
Gene
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