whitivery <co55-sy1t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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. Following up to my post: another problem is that %end still doesn't work - using it to end the packages, pre, or post sections, it causes a fatal failure, kickstart stops. I expected this with my old CentOS 4.4 kickstart/anaconda, but not with the much newer CentOS 5.3 one - the web documentation implies that it should work. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
