RE: RHEL5.2, kickstart, USB, "OPCODE" error after reboot

"Kennedy, Cameron" <Cameron.Kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:07:51 -0400

Thanks Gordon and Greg for your
advice. I was able to test both options and found them to work. Going forward “—driveorder”
will have to be the option I use to get a consistent result, though, as this is
primarily for DR planning purposes and I can’t be guaranteed that I will have
HP hardware (though we generally do in tests) I might also have to use some
type of %pre script to determine if this is a HP server or something else and
adjust the “—driveorder” parameter accordingly. It is odd that the “ignoredisk”
option doesn’t seem to take effect. 

Thanks

From:
kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Keegan, Gordon

Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:00 PM

To: Discussion list about Kickstart

Subject: RE: RHEL5.2, kickstart, USB, "OPCODE" error after
reboot 

Cameron,

We've seen similar behavior on a couple of our HP servers.  I
think there may be a bug in anaconda somewhere.  If you can boot to into a
rescue mode, check the /boot/grub/device.map file and see if "(hd0)"
maps to "dev/cciss/c0d0" like it's supposed to, or if it maps to
"/dev/sd##" instead.  The couple of times that we've seen it, we
have been able to edit the device.map file then re-run the grub-install and it
booted up normally.

Gordon

From: Kennedy, Cameron
[mailto:Cameron.Kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 

Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:33 PM

To: Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RHEL5.2, kickstart, USB, "OPCODE" error after reboot 

Hi all, 

Just starting to play around with RHEL5.2 servers in our
environment and am coming up with a strange kickstart issue. I have narrowed it
down to the following scenario: 

Build a HP 385 server, using a RHEL5.2 DVD cut from a downloaded
ISO, and the kickstart file located on a USB stick. After the initial build,
the server reboots, the DVD and USB stick are manually removed and right where
the GRUB screen should be displayed, I get a screen that looks like a kernel
panic screen, though starts with the line “Illegal OPCODE” and then a bunch of
hex output. 

If I build the server without the USB stick but using the
same kickstart file (copied to the DVD) it works fine. 

Thinking that the USB stick (/dev/sda) was being
incorporated into the build process (LVM), I added the line: 

“ignoredisk --drives=sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf”  to the
kickstart script. This did not fix the issue. 

I then added the line: 

“part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200
-- forcing /boot to be created on the internal raid
disk, which also failed the fix the issue. I did watch the <F4> screen
during the last build process and I know that /boot is created on
/dev/cciss/c0d0 (HP raid) and the partition information on the USB stick
appears to be unchanged (i.e. not formatted). So I am at a loss as to what else
I could check. I do know the exact same kickstart script, server, usb stick
combination builds a RHEL4.6 server without any problems. Has anyone else seen
this or have any ideas?

Thanks.  

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