On 2017-03-08 13:39, Andrew Simpson wrote: > I have had a few issues migrating from RHEL 6 kickstart installs to RHEL 7. > > 1. pxeboot installs were failing because I did not have the LiveOS > directory included in the customized ISO. Is the LiveOS directory (and the > images in it) required in RHEL 7 now? > 2. in pxeboot, I had to have the proper order of options in the > isolinux.cfg (pxelinux.cfg) file. We were also using NFS for the install. > Lastly, the pxeboot server is older, and caused issues with the nfs > version. The order of relevant options was: > > inst.stage2=nfs4:10.0.0.1:/path/to/installdir > inst.ks=nfs:10.0.0.1:/path/to/installdir/ksdir/file.ks > inst.repo=nfs4:/10.0.0.1:/path/to/installdir > > Notice that inst.ks=nfs didn't require the nfs version, but repo and stage2 > did. The order was also important for whatever reason. The NFS problem might be related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228272 > > 3. USB installs worked under RHEL 6. Now, I'm having issues. Under RHEL > 6 I would use live-iso-to-disk to write the files to the USB drive. This > came from the livecd-tools packages in fedora. > > 4. I currently am able to do PXE installs and DVD installs without fail. > > Under RHEL 7, the livecd-tools utilities no longer work for this as the > livecd-iso-to-disk script finds the LiveOS directory in the iso and stops > processing anything else, treating it as a LiveOS image. So this goes back > to Number 1 above. Is the LiveOS required? Is there anyway to use > livecd-tools to generate the USB drive? > > The generation of the iso is correct and I'm using isohybrid on the .iso. > Under RHEL 6, the usb drive would work flawlessly. > > I switched to using the following while building on a RHEL.6 (soon to be > rhel.7) system: > > pv -treb my.iso | dd of=/dev/sdc conv=noerrors,notrunc > > > So, is there a better way to make a bootable usb via command line -or- what > is the proper way to do this? > > Should the iso layout mostly be exactly like the oem iso, with the > exception of the changed isolinux.cfg file(s), ks files, and additional > packages/repodata? > > Thanks for all and any help/information you can provide! > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Department of Automatic Control Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625 P.O. Box 118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
