On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:18:48PM -0700, John Oliver wrote: > I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my kickstart script > to perform an unattended install. > > My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine. However, it quickly > says: > > The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM > drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and press OK to > retry. > > Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say "You didn't copy the > .discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are identical to a working > image: > > 1177148299.639333 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 > i386 > 1,2,3,4,5 > RedHat/base > RedHat/RPMS > RedHat/pixmaps > > Switching to vt3 shows: > > * starting to STEP_URL > * trying to mount CD device hdc > * trying to mount CD device hdc > > > vt4 shows: > > <7>libata version 2.00 loaded. > <3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors > <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc. > <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc. The solution was in the way my ISO was being built. http://www.harkness.co.uk/other/RHEL4_custom_dvd.html has the answer: $ mkisofs -r -T -J -V "Name of CD" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o ../test.iso . -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
