Apologize if this has been covered before, but I've been wrestling with this for 3 days now. I basically have a test system that is a light install of ~1GB that I am trying to make into a single, bootable RHEL3 CD. I basically did a bare install, and then ran "rpm -e" until the system worked as desired. I then did a "rpm -qa" and built my ./RedHat/RPMS/ filelist from that. I have run the "genhdlist --withnumbers" and painstakenly modified my comps.xml to match the RPMs, as well as just tried to use the default comps.xml as well. Everything seems to go fine, no errors during the install in any case -- full or minimal. But at the first boot of the newly installed system, GRUB throws out an Error 13. Upon closer inspection of the system install, it appears not only has no kernel been installed in /boot, but the "coreutils" packages has not been installed. Everything else seems to be installed from an "rpm -qa" listing though. Are there additional RPMS that the ./RedHat/RPMS/ directory needs on the CD that would not be listed in a "rpm -qa" output? Or do I really need to go through the full "pkgorder" (for 1 CD that is only 440MB total?) or "buildinstall" (I haven't updated the packages at all -- just using stock RHEL3U6 RPMS and a stock RHEL3U6 system as the build)? I'm kinda just curious why the kernel and coreutils wouldn't get installed? It does say "installing bootloader" (or similar) at the end. Another thing, it does appear I am getting some "%post" and "%pre" "scriptlet" errors in ./root/install.log from some packages -- including a "%pre" error from "coreutils" (and it says it's skipping the package). What does that result from? The lack of running a full "buildinstall"? A Google search showed some people running into it with bad hardware or other things. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145324 Note, I'm installing from an image on the hard drive, although I've burned to a CD-R and get the sam errors. I'm building the ISO image and installing from it to save time -- using the stock RHEL3U6 CD#1 to boot and passing either "expert" or "askmethod". It can't be a hardware or disk space issue, as the original RHEL3U6 CDs or ISO images do install fine. It's clearly my repackaging that is at fault. Sorry if this is clearly the result of not running "buildinstall" and going through the full procedure. Just let me know that. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)
