From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Galeon/1.3.13 Description of problem: This is the same problem described in bug #97792, but I don't see that anyone has marked it as an ongoing bug with RHEL 3. The Proliant 1850 server will freeze during anaconda probing of the monitor/mouse. While the nousb option (probably, haven't tried) works for CD installations, this is not a solution for our automated pxe/nfs kickstart build environment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot server into installation program. 2. 3. Actual Results: Anaconda and the server freeze at: "Running anaconda, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installer - please wait... Probing for video card: ATI MAch64 3D RAGE II Probing for monitor type: Unkown monitor" (freeze) Expected Results: Installation should proceed smoothly. Additional info: I know this is a dupe of #97792, but felt it should be noted that it still affects the current version of RHEL 3.
nousb does work? If it works, why doesn't it work if you're also kickstarting?
I don't know if nousb works or not, I'm referring back to the workaround offered up in #97792. Our build environment is pxe/nfs kickstart only, no CD installs here. As far as I can can tell, there is no way (short of hacking the ramdisk) to issue kernel boot parameters on a pxeboot kickstart installation. Please correct me if I'm off-base.
If you're using pxelinux, then it's trivial to do. How else would you add the 'ks' parameters?
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen this bug if you have further information to add to the report.