I changed the DVD content however I had checksum implanted on the new iso before burning the DVD. I used implantisomd5 for this. Wouldn't that take care of iso checksum?
I also don't see shell or debug consoles when I press Alt-F2/3/4. This will aid me in troubleshooting if somehow I can see the
details of what is going on during the installation.
I tried booting into rescue mode as well however I don't see any relevant logs from the previous installation attempt. I certainly can use some pointers here.
Thank you so much!
From: Moray Henderson <Moray.Henderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Megha Agrawal' <megha_dtel@xxxxxxxxx>; 'Discussion list about Kickstart' <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: installation halts at two different points
To: 'Megha Agrawal' <megha_dtel@xxxxxxxxx>; 'Discussion list about Kickstart' <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: installation halts at two different points
From: Megha Agrawal [mailto:megha_dtel@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 August 2012 09:25
Sent: 29 August 2012 09:25
I am using kickstart to automate CentOS 5.5 installation. I have successfully burnt an iso and
installed using this. Next I added a few more packages to this iso and this time when I try installing, it went on smoothly until in the end where it got stuck saying "installing boot loader". Nothing happened afterwards.
I ejected the DVD, put it back and then tried once again - this time installer halts in the very beginning at "Running Anaconda the CentOS system installer .. please wait.. ".
Subsequent attempts keep halting in the beginning at "Running Anaconda the CentOS system installer ..
please wait.. ".
What could have been going wrong? I have only added a few packages/rpms this time.
That’s quite an old CentOS you’re using – the supported one is 5.8.
One
possibility is a corrupt DVD. Now that you’ve changed the contents of the DVD the built-in iso checksum won’t work, but you could generate checksums of every file in your source directory and compare them with checksums read from the DVD.
Alt-F2, -F3 and -F4 switch you to a shell and debug consoles. Alt-F1 gives the install console again. ps at the shell prompt can show what’s going on in the installer, and the debug consoles may contain useful error messages.
Moray.
“To err is human; to purr, feline.”
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