Please do not just close this as a duplicate of the 4 prior reports of this problem. I have the April bootnet.img found in the errata for 6.2 and kickstart's 'rootpw --iscrypted MyEnCrYPtEDPW' STILL leaves my machine with no root password upon reboot. Since it seems like previous bugs were related to this information, here is the auth line as well: auth --enablenis --nisdomain ourdomain.mitre.org --useshadow
Please note that I actually was not doing the 'linux updates' method of booting with the 20000407 images. Rather I had put a new bootnet.img on my kickstart floppy and just done 'linux ks=floppy'. BUT...now that I have tried it as 'linux updates ks=floppy', it fails (See bug 11637) in Anaconda. So I have yet to do a kickstart with 20000407 images that even succeeds enough to test the rootpw functionality. Please leave this open until 11637 is resolved at least.
Using: 4/7/2000 boot image 4/7/2000 updates disk kickstart file (see below) syslinux: linux updates ks=floppy our test installs did successfully set the root password ... bug 11637 has been verified (thank you!), and a possible workaround suggested to hopefully allow you to continue your installations (ie adding a mouse parameter in your kickstart file (such as below for example)) ... please reopen if you continue having root password troubles with above disks & kickstart ... lang en_US network --bootproto dhcp nfs --server foobar --dir /mnt/6.2/i386 keyboard "us" zerombr yes clearpart --all part / --size 2000 part swap --size 128 install mouse generic3ps/2 timezone America/New_York xconfig --card --monitor --startxonboot rootpw --iscrypted $1$Fxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx auth --enablenis --nisdomain foobar.domain.com --useshadow lilo --location mbr --append "mem=60m" reboot %packages @Base @X Window System %post
Wow. Well...I'll be damned. I can't make it fail now either. I must be losing my mind. Leaving this closed sounds fine to me. One question though. Is there NO WAY to make a new _single_ boot floppy with the 4/7/2000 updates integrated?