I tried Alt+f1, Alt+f2 etc. no effect. I am doing all this from the cyclades console. I might have to go in front of the box and try it out, which I should be doing in a few hours. Thanks for the suggestion. -Mukarram. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of KENNEDY VAN DAM Eric Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:46 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: Unable to get any http requests:Unable toretreive netstg2.imgfile > -----Message d'origine----- > De : kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Mukarram Syed > Envoyé : mercredi 16 mai 2007 10:39 > À : 'Discussion list about Kickstart' > Objet : RE: Unable to get any http requests:Unable to > retreive netstg2.imgfile > > Nope. Nothing in the error logs. > > In my troubleshooting, this is what I've found... > > When I remove the ks=http://<ServerIP>/<PATH>/ks.cfg from my > "default" file > Client PXE boots, shows menu and loads vmlinuz/initrd. > Then it shows up the Language selection. No luck. > However, when I change my default file to read: ks=/<PATH>/ks.cfg, > Client PXE boots, shows menu and loads vmlinuz/initrd. > Then it gives the error "Error opening kickstart file (null): > Bad address" > I do some more research (see link below) > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2004-06/5939.html > and modified the ks.cfg file...add more network parameters like so: > network --device=eth0 --bootproto=static --ip=171.67.39.139 > --netmask=255.255.255.224 --gateway=171.67.39.129 > --nameserver=171.64.7.77 > --hostname=as-test.stanford.edu > Still no luck. > I then changed my --device=eth0 to --device=link and then to > --device=eth1...still no luck. Then put it back to --device=eth0. > Then I change my PATH from: > url --url http://171.67.39.130/ENT_LINUX_64/Enterprise > to > url --url http://171.67.39.130/ENT_LINUX_64 > Still no luck. > Again nothing in the http logs. > > It looks like the installer is reading the ks.cfg file > silently since it > complained that it couldn't find it from the default file > when I didn't > specify the http://<servername>. > Can I figure out what is reading and stopping. Is there a > way to look at > the kickstart logs (If there is any...I haven't seen one). > > I tried to create logging as well in my ks.cfg file...no > luck...no output: > %pre --log=/tmp/my-pre-log > echo 'Hello, World!' Sorry if the suggestion has already been made. Did you try to go to the other consoles ? There is a lot of information there which can help to debu your problem. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
