2008/7/10 Klaus Steden <klaus.steden@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi Amos, > > 1. I've never done an install in Xen, but if it behaves like the traditional > Anaconda installation, you can use Ctrl-F# to switch to that vt, i.e. > Ctrl-F3 switches to tty3, Ctrl-F2 to tty2, etc. You'll see fairly voluminous Yes I know about these, it's just that it doesn't work in a Xen text console. Maybe Xen needs some more flags or configuration to enable this. > debugging output from the bootstrap and install process on tty5 and tty6, > and if you're using the graphical installer, switching back to tty7 will > return you to X11. This is something you do interactively from the console > ... I've never bothered to do any scripting/programming with chvt, so I > can't comment on it. This stuff is general for any linux, BTW, it's not specific to Anaconda. > > 2. I know it's not something you can do permanently, but it at least buys > you time during %post to investigate and see what's going on. I've used this > approach before to figure out why installs would hang during %post (cfengine > would go zombie sometimes when run) that simply looking at the machine won't > tell you -- you need to get inside it, run the commands that don't work, see > what happens, etc. Once you've identified the culprit, you fix the bug, > disable the sleep statement, and try again with a live install. Yes I see the value in having it during dev. I'm just looking at the longer term when a production run doesn't work, I can't have the "sleep forever" there so I'll loose the "wait and look around" step so I'll have to re-do it in "debug mode" and hope that the problem will repeat. Having the ability to just have the output somewhere for production runs will save it. > > As far as trapping the output, I believe Kickstart now supports remote > logging via syslog (it was debated for addition to RHEL4 and similar Thanks. I missed that while looking through the Anaconda docs. Cheers, --Amos _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
