Worked like a Champ! Thanks Bryan. Looks like my problem was not having the "--size=" included in the /boot/efi line. I knew it had to be something fairly simply, since I wasn't able to find anyone on the net that was having much trouble at all Kickstarting Itanium hardware. Thanks again! On 3/28/07, Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell@xxxxxx> wrote:
Matt, Here's a kickstart script that I just tested with a network kickstart and it worked fine on an rx2660. Bryan Matt P wrote: > Yes, you're correct, I've got Itatium on the brain, there are only 2 > internal drives. I'm in the process of building out 70+ machine which > are a mix of Itanium (RX4640) and x86 (DL class). The x86 machines > have 4 HDDs, my mistake. > > I'm pretty sure the Module gets loaded. I didn't use lsmod but fdisk > does see the disk and the partitions that HP SmartStart builds which > includes efi.... I'll give that "device scsi cciss" a shot. the worst > part about testing this is I've got to burn a new DVD each time I make > a change to the config. Then sneaker net it over to the customer site, > etc, etc... It's a royal pain. > > > On 3/28/07, Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Matt, >> >> I work in HP's Open Source and Linux Organization and I've done multiple >> kickstart installs on Itanium hardware and everything looks right to me. >> It sounds like the cciss driver isn't being loaded during your >> kickstart install for some reason. Can you switch to the shell (Alt-F2) >> and run lsmod (or 'cat /proc/modules') and see if the cciss driver is >> loaded when you receive that message? >> >> You can also try adding the following line to the top of your kickstart >> script to make sure the cciss driver is loaded: >> >> device scsi cciss >> >> BTW, how did you manage to fit four internal drives in an rx4640? >> There's only room for two. >> >> Bryan install nfs --server=test.test --dir=/dist/redhat/rhel4/as/U3/ia64 lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX firewall --disabled selinux --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone --utc America/Denver bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=ttyS0" clearpart --all --initlabel=gpt part /boot/efi --fstype vfat --size=100 --ondisk=cciss/c1d0 part swap --fstype swap --size=2048 --ondisk=cciss/c1d0 part / --fstype ext3 --size=256 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c1d0 %packages e2fsprogs kernel dosfstools elilo %post _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
