On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Gerald Waugh wrote: >First post; Welcome. >We are installing CentOS4 via a USB cdrom, and have a problem. >The server boots just fine from the USB cdrom. >At the boot prompt we enter "linux ks=cdrom". >If we do nothing else, the install drops into 'text mode' With a language prompt? That happens when the kickstart file can't be found (for whatever reason). >If we pull the USB cable and reinsert when the console reports "running >/sbin/loader" the kickstart script is run and everything is fine. Sounds like: - The BIOS is using the CD drive correctly as a boot device. - ISOLINUX is discovering the kernel and initrd properly - The kernel doesn't realise, unless triggered by the hot-plug, that the cdrom is what you mean by ks=cdrom At a guess, either try ks=/dev/scd?? if the drive shows up as a SCSI device, or see if there's are kernel USB/CD/SCSI options which can be passed in with ks=cdrom to influence the probe. Cheers, Phil
