If you don't need the USB drive for anything other than the initial boot, you could always embed the kickstart file in the initrd. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:52 AM To: RHEL4 mailing list Cc: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: USB devices not being seen in anaconda during RHEL4 kickstart Wotcha, I've got a pile of Sun x4140 and x4240 servers here which I'm required to install RHEL4 (update 7) on. I've already installed RHEL5.3 on them flawlessly, booting from a USB stick with a syslinux and <machine>.cfg kickstart setup on it for a HTTP-based install. The USB device appears as sdb. This works (for installing RHEL5.3 Server 32-bit): label wibbly kernel vmli5s32 append initrd=int5s32.img ks=hd:sdb1:/configs/wibbly.cfg console=ttyS0,9600 This does not (for installing RHEL4 u7 AS 32-bit): label gonk kernel vmli4s32 append initrd=int4s32.img ks=hd:sdb1:/configs/gonk.cfg console=ttyS0,9600 Now I'm trying it with RHEL4 and failing utterly. The machine itself will boot from the USB stick in the proper manner via syslinux and display the boot.msg. It'll accept keyboard input and boot the vmlinuz and initrd.img for AS4 (update 7) and start the process (see above). However at the point at which it should read from 'sdb1' to get the configuration (the IP, HTTP kickstart tree URL, etc.) it just presents me with the dialogue box for selecting the language to install in. Not only that but if I proceed manually and get to the partitioning stage there's no sign of anything but the internal (RAID) disk(s) (announced as sda). I've tried disabling the "Hand-off EHCI" setting and trying all the other USB-related options in the BIOS but nothing seems to make anaconda see USB devices. Does anyone have any suggestions, please? With thanks, Ben -- Unix Support, MISD, University of Cambridge, England Plugger of wire, typer of keyboard, imparter of Clue Life Is Short. It's All Good. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
