James Cammarata <jimi@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:54:34 -0400, Kyle Powell <kpowell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> whitivery wrote: >>> We have a working Kickstart server for CentOS 4.4, building >>> targets running CentOS 4.4. >>> >>> I built a new server with CentOS 5.3, to build CentOS 5.3 >>> targets, adapting for the changes I noticed as I went along. The >>> new server boots and runs but won't build a target unit. >>> >>> When I PXE-boot a target unit, I get the boot menu and pick an >>> entry, it starts the early part fine, loads stage2.img OK, shows >>> a couple screens then a "Retrieving installation information" >>> dialog/progress bar, and just when/after that gets to 100%, it >>> halts with a traceback. >> >> Looks like you need more RAM: >> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19367&forum=37 >> >> Same thing with Fedora: >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499585 >> >> Minimum RAM requirement for RHEL 5 is 512MB. I assume that applies to >> CentOS as >> well: >> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/ > >Yes I've seen this same error on systems with insufficient ram (usually >VM's). The key is that it fails on the lspci call, which is exactly where >all of mine would fail. Thanks to you and Kyle for the answers - I tried another box with 512M RAM and it worked fine. Seems nuts that hundreds of millions of bytes of memory can't even start a text mode install. With the box that worked, I still see some warnings in the anaconda.log like the following - do I need some additional kickstart settings or something to avoid these?: I don't need DNS hostname lookup so why is it trying?: 21:00:01 ERROR : no DNS servers, can't look up hostname 21:00:01 ERROR : no DNS servers, can't look up hostname I specified "url" so why these messages?: 21:00:01 ERROR : got to setupCdrom without a CD device 21:00:22 WARNING : no floppy devices found but we'll try fd0 anyway I specified "text" so why does it say "not available" - it's available, I just prefer text install: 21:00:25 WARNING : Graphical installation not available... Starting text mode. What does this mean?: 21:00:28 WARNING : Unable to find temp path, going to use ramfs path Why these?: 21:00:32 WARNING : step installtype does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist 21:00:32 WARNING : step complete does not exist These seem to be bugs: 21:00:36 WARNING : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/snack.py:250: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float self.w = _snack.scale(width, total) 21:00:36 WARNING : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/snack.py:247: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float self.w.scaleSet(amount) 21:00:48 WARNING : /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py:68: RuntimeWarning: YumProgress.progressbar called when popped self.callback.progressbar(num, len(repos), repo.id) In addition, there are numerous "WARNING: <something> doesn't exist" scattered in the log near the end of the install. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
