Hi, do you make only fresh installs or upgrade-installs as well? In case you make only fresh installs, the boot order in BIOS must be something like: 1) rem. device 2) HD 3) CD/DVD If there is no system on the HD, the install system will be started from CD. After install and reboot the freshly installed system will be started from HD. Regards, Martin Newiger >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Steven Roberts [SMTP:strobert-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx] >Gesendet am: Montag, 29. September 2003 10:36 >An: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Betreff: Re: Ejecting CDROM in %POST? > >On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:10:38AM -0400, csw@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have kickstart running smoothly. I am doing a network install (NFS) >>with a CD made from isolinux with the ks.cfg on it. So I simply put in >>the CD and boot my machine and everything installs nicely. >> >> The only problem is that after everything installs, the systems >>reboots and boots from the CD which starts the install process all >>over again. >> >> How can I eject the CD or get around this problem? I need to have the >>system boot from CD to do the install so changing my boot order is not >>an option. >> >> >> >(originally attempted to send 2003-09-26 00:51 but had non subscribed > from address on the e-mail) > >the approach we take (using floppies instead of cd's but the concept is >the same) is this: > > - on the initial install have the BIOS set for floppy boot. > - as the machine is rebooting change to hard drive boot > - create an entry in /etc/lilo.conf to allow booting from floppy > - create a 'nuke' script in root's home dir that changes lilo to boot >from floppy and reboots the system > (chmod 400 so it has to be invoked with a /bin/sh /root/nuke to help >prevent > accidental re-install) > >So the first install (ever on the new machine) have to watch to change >the BIOS >but subsequent re-installs can be unattended/remote. > >And yes still using LILO, on the list to migrate away from but since >our >standard non RHEL deployment is RH7.3 (since it is compatible with >AS2.1 and ES2.1) not a major issue for us yet. > >Regards, >Steven Roberts > > >_______________________________________________ >Kickstart-list mailing list >Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
