Could not get back to you sooner, sorry. The regenerated hdlist worked after pkgorder was run as stated in the link you sent. In addition, I had to set PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda Appreciate your help. As it is sort of too belated I am sending this direct to you and not the list. Rgds abraham > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: abuji <aboojy@xxxxxxxxx> > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:02:06 -0500 > Subject: genhdlist > All, > > We are testing RH4.0 update 2 build off a kickstart server (at Rh3.0 level), > configured to support RH4.0 client builds. > > Incidentally after running > "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /images/rh40u2" > (/images/rh40u2 is the root dir where RedHat resides) the build fails. The > client boots fien, begins the build but quits. > > The genhdlist command completes without error and hdlist and hdlist2 files > are created fine. Even without adding any rpms to the RPMS dir, the build > fails > > Was wondering what is the correct syntax for genhdlist. There is no man > pages or info on it. > > Thanks > Abraham > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Philip Rowlands <phr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:17:34 +0100 (BST) > Subject: Re: genhdlist > Please don't post HTML to mailing lists. > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, abuji wrote: > > > We are testing RH4.0 update 2 build off a kickstart server (at > >Rh3.0level), configured to support RH4.0 client builds. > > Incidentally after running > "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist > >/images/rh40u2" (/images/rh40u2 is the root dir where RedHat resides) the > >build fails. The client boots fien, begins the build but quits. > > The genhdlist command completes without error and hdlist and hdlist2 files > >are created fine. Even without adding any rpms to the RPMS dir, the build > >fails > > Fails how? Are any error messages seen on the other virtual consoles? > (Alt+F2, F3 etc.) > > If anaconda is still behaving strangely w.r.t. package ordering, try > section 9 of: > http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/CustomizingAnaconda > (you can ignore the rest of that page, as you're not rebuilding anaconda > as a whole.) > > > Cheers, > Phil > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > -- abuji