I am having problem with my kickstart installation.... I have tried everything and I just don't understand what is going wrong. I am messing around with kickstart... and I finally got a kickstart using NFS and DHCP working. I ran this a couple of times tweaking things here and there. Everything worked fine.... I was able to run the kickstat and then pop out the floppy and reboot Linux off the HD several times... Then I did it again and the boot process stopped at L.... Anyway I messed with this awhile and couldn't get anywhere so I wondered if it was the HD. So I put in a virgin identical one in (I have a bunch of these things....Western Digital ATA 100 20Gig 7200 RPM). Ran the kickstart install .... no problem everything works. Run kickstart... then boot off the hard disk no problem.... So I keep tweaking....running the kickstart install... Until all the sudden I get the dreaded LI... prompt this time... So I start doing the usual lilo stuff.... I boot up off the redhat rescue over the network rerun lilo and still I get LI... I can run the kickstart all day long and still get this. Attached are my kickstart.cfg file and the lilo.conf that kickstart is generating and output from fdisk... In addition I have zeroed the hard drive using the Western Digital HDs using their utilities and run their diagnostics against them and everything is ok. My box setup is a dual smp PIII with onboard ATA100 controller. 1 Western Digital 20 G ATA100 7200 rpm disk w floppy and no cdrom. I am stumped and I am starting to wonder if I have done something permanent to the disks but in my heart I know this is just something stupid... Please help set me straight. Thanks, Scott Shealy lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda5 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 label=linux-up read-only root=/dev/hda5 parition setup(setup by kickstart) /dev/hda1 * 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4 2434 195227007+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4 67 514048+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 68 84 136521 82 Linux swap kickstart cfg file: ### Language Specification #lang ru_RU.KOI8-R lang en_US ### Network Configuration network --bootproto dhcp #network --bootproto static --ip 192.168.0.1 --netmask 255.255.254.0 --gateway 192.168.0.1 --nameserver 192.168.0.254 ### Source File Location #cdrom nfs --server 10.10.0.1 --dir /mnt/cdrom ### Ethernet Device Configuration #device ethernet wd --opts "io=0x280, irq=3" ### Keyboard Configuration ### Will get set to 'us' by default ### if nothing specified in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard keyboard us ### Partitioning Information ### Whether to clear out the Master Boot Record (yes/no) ### Which partitions to format (--linux/--all) ### --linux - only format existing linux partitions ### --all - format all existing partitions ### Which partitions to set up on new system as well ### as size of those partitions #zerombr yes clearpart --all part /boot --size 16 part / --size 500 part swap --size 127 #part raid.0 --size 80 #part raid.1 --size 80 #raid swap raid.0 raid.1 --level 1 --device md0 install ### Mouse Configuration ### Will only setup 3 types of mice ### generic - 2-button serial ### genericps/2 - 2-button ps/2 ### msintellips/2 - MS Intellimouse ### All three can be setup with or without 3-button ### emulation ### Run 'mouseconfig --help' in order to see other ### supported mouse type and make appropriate change ### NOTE: You will need to run 'mouseconfig' manually ### after installation if you have a non-ps/2 mouse ### and are installing X, as a ps/2 mouse is setup ### by default #mouse generic --device ttyS0 mouse generic3ps/2 ### Time Zone Configuration ### Will get set to 'US/Eastern' if ZONE is missing ### from /etc/sysconfig/clock or if file is missing entirely timezone --utc US/Eastern ### X Configuration ### Will set up system for minimal resolution and color depth; ### may wish to run Xconfigurator manually after system installation #xconfig --server "SVGA" --monitor "viewsonic g773" ### Root Password Designation ### '--iscrypted' does not work properly with release 6.1 as shipped; ### will need to get updates from http://support.redhat.com/errata ### in order for this to work correctly; can also just specify ### root password in plain text and change it after system installation; ### e.g. 'rootpw ThisIsThePassword' will get root's password to ### "ThisIsThePassword" rootpw paSSword ### Authorization Configuration auth --useshadow --enablemd5 #auth --enablemd5 ### Lilo Configuration ### Does not support pulling kernel 'append' arguments, but those ### can be added into config file using '--append' argument; ### e.g. 'lilo --append "mem=128M" --location mbr' will put the ### memory argument in the /etc/lilo.conf file at install lilo --location mbr --linear #lilo --location partition #lilo --location none reboot ### Package Designation ### The package names, as well as the groups they are a part of can be ### found in the /RedHat/base/comps file; individual packages can be ### specified by entering their names one per line; ### groups (e.g. 'X Window System') can be specified ### by appending a "@" in front of the group name; ### e.g. '@ X Window System' %packages @ Base ### Commands To Be Run Post-Installation %post echo "This is in the chroot" > /tmp/message
