Gday again, Has anybody actually achieved a kickstart with Enterprise 2.0 Redhat, and a cdrom install ( ks=cdrom ) and would like to comment on the isolinux.cfg they created or the line they typed at the boot: prompt ? My install keeps complaining about cant find ks.cfg in the /tmp directory ? Thanks again Martin At 10:55 AM 6/3/2004, Martin Rheumer wrote: >List.. > > >Have changed the lines in isolinux.cfg > >default ks >prompt 1 >timeout 600 >display boot.msg >F1 boot.msg >F2 general.msg >F3 expert.msg >F4 param.msg >F5 rescue.msg >label linux > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 vga=788 >label text > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 >label expert > kernel vmlinuz > append expert initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 >label ks > kernel vmlinuz > append expert noprobe ks=cdrom initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount >ramdisk_size=7168 >label nofb > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount nofb ramdisk_size=7168 >label lowres > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img lang= lowres devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 > >So that the ks config now has expert noprobe in them. > >And then added the device lines to the ks.cfg > >install >lang en_US >langsupport --default en_AU en_AU en_US >keyboard us >mouse none --device null >skipx >network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp >text >rootpw --iscrypted $1$16ýµHôËO$lTPsWNVVICEM4bM.NOHY31 >firewall --disabled >authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 >timezone Australia/Sydney >device net tg3 >device scsi megaraid2 >bootloader > >It now prompts me at the boot: menu, I press enter, then for a driver disk, >I say no, then the language and keyboard and finally says >the only choice to install is from cd. > >I think I have done something wrong. > >Anymore ideas ? > >Martin > > > > > > >Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:23:34 >To: martinr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Redhat ES2.1 and Poweredge 1750 Perc 4/Di > >On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:01:31PM +0000, Martin Rheumer wrote: >> >> Peeps, >> >> Have been wanting to rebuild my kickstart routine on >> the Dell 1750 and Perc 4/Di controllers which I >> thought was going to be fixed with Redhat ES2.1 >> and Update 4.. But alas it works fine with drivers >> for the Network Card the Broadcom is now supported >> but the Megaraid controller fails to install and run >> and so the machine cannot install via kickstart. > >You need to do an 'expert noprobe' install and specify "device scsi >megaraid2", "device net tg3" in your kickstart. That'll force it to >use megaraid2 and tg3, which is what you want. >
