"installation method" RHEL 5.2

Herta Van den Eynde herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 09:21:33 UTC 2008


I md5sum'ed the image and also had it checked by the installation
script.  They both came back OK.
I currently don't have another system to test this on, but I can
hardly imagine I'd be the first to use this.

And things are getting curiouser and curiouser.
After installing 5.1, I mounted the 5.1 iso image through DRAC.
/var/log/messages reports "Jul  8 12:56:23 dsrv546 kernel: cdrom: This
disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!"
But if I connect the 5.2 iso image, nothing gets logged - and nothing
gets automount'ed either.

Kind regards,

Herta


2008/7/7 Chet Nichols III <chet.nichols at gmail.com>:
> I had previously had an issue with an iLO card on an HP that was also giving
> me virtual media issues- turns out I just needed to update the iLO
> firmware.
>
> I would say maybe you need to update your DRAC firmware, but you said it
> works fine with RHEL5.1, just not 5.2? Have you tried using your 5.2 disc on
> a local machine to confirm it works? I guess that's kind of an obvious
> suggestion, but you never know :D
>
> Chet
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Dongwu Zeng <dongwu at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I guess that the first reading from CD-ROM is done through driver provide
>> by
>> BIOS. When RHEL asks for installation media, it tries to use driver
>> provided
>> by Linux. It seems that Linux or RHEL in this case doesn't have driver for
>> your "virtual Cd-ROM". I had similar problem before when I tried to use
>> USB
>> CD-ROM to install RHEL. You need to somehow specify the correct driver
>> during installation.
>>
>> Dongwu
>>
>>
>> On 7/7/08 6:32 AM, "Herta Van den Eynde" <herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 2008/7/7 Chet Nichols III <chet.nichols at gmail.com>:
>> >>> Why is the question there in the first place?  It got that far using
>> >>> the virtual media, so why not simply continue using it?
>> >>
>> >> Your virtual media might be a boot ISO whose only job is to boot the
>> >> machine
>> >> (as a virtual CD-ROM) into a kickstart install using packages that
>> >> you'll
>> >> grab over HTTP.
>> >>
>> >> As for why it's giving you that issue, not a clue at all- never had
>> >> that
>> >> issue before, sorry!
>> >>
>> >> Chet
>> >>
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>> > Thanks, Chet.
>> >
>> > I never had the issue before either.  It seems to work just fine with
>> > the Red Hat 5.1 iso. :-(
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > Herta
>>
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