Re: `inst.ks` hides installation source on an ISO?

["Young, Gregory" <gregory.young@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From your description, I suspect when you generated the iso, you didn’t label it, or you gave it a different label than “CentOS-8-3-2011-x86_64-dvd”. Also be careful of spaces in the label name. Here is the entry I use:

 

append initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64 inst.ks=hd:LABEL=CentOS\x207\x20x86_64:/ks.cfg inst.sshd inst.graphical inst.noninteractive inst.noshell net.ifnames=0 selinux=0 rhgb quiet vga=792 modprobe.blacklist=floppy consoleblank=0 biosdevname=0 rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

 

And this is the genisoimage command:

 

genisoimage \

    -input-charset default \

    -U \

    -r \

    -v \

    -T \

    -J \

    -joliet-long \

    -V "CentOS 7 x86_64" \

    -volset "CentOS 7 x86_64" \

    -A "CentOS 7 x86_64" \

    -b "isolinux/isolinux.bin" \

    -c "isolinux/boot.cat" \

    -no-emul-boot \

    -boot-load-size 4 \

    -boot-info-table \

    -eltorito-alt-boot \

    -e "images/efiboot.img" \

    -no-emul-boot \

    -o "${SCRIPT_DIR}/disk.iso" \

    "${BUILDDIR}/"

 

 

Greg

 

From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx <kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of David Barr <dafydd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 17:26
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: `inst.ks` hides installation source on an ISO?

Good Morning!

Duck Duck Go searches haven't helped me, and this problem feels like it has an obvious answer if I put the question in front of the right person.

I'm adding a kickstart reference to an ISO. When I do, Anaconda (I think) can't find the Installation Source. If I drop the "inst.ks" the Installation Source is autodetected. So, an unmodified entry in isolinux/isolinux.cfg looks like this:

```
label linux
  menu label ^Install CentOS Linux 8
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8-3-2011-x86_64-dvd quiet
```

This will autodetect the Installation Source. If I add a kickstart reference:

```
label linux
  menu label ^Install CentOS Linux 8
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img  inst.stag2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8-3-2011-x86_64-dvd quiet inst.ks=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8-3-2011-x86_64-dvd
```

No Installation Source is found, but any `repo` entries in the kickstart file will be listed as "Additional Repositories." This is true for any variety of inst.ks reference. ("inst.ks=hd:/dev/sdb", "inst.ks=hd:/dev/sdb:/ks.cfg", etc.)

Am I not seeing a kickstart entry that specifies the Installation Source? Do I have to add another `append` argument that specifies the Installation Source? What am I missing?

Thanks!
David

Previous problems and solutions:

- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/640232/verified-good-mkisofs-for-centos-8/640786
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/641277/centos-8-custom-iso-adding-ks-cdrom-ks-cfg-hangs-the-installer/641278

--

David/dafydd

PGP Public Key

“The hardest thing in the world is to change the minds of people who keep saying, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ These are days of fast changes and if we don’t change with them, we can get hurt or lost.” -- Admiral Grace Hopper

_______________________________________________
Kickstart-list mailing list
Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list