Bug 136359 – keyboard kickstart directive is ignored

Bug 136359 - keyboard kickstart directive is ignored

Summary:	keyboard kickstart directive is ignored

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Paul Nasrat
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2004-10-19 10:44 EDT by david d zuhn
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-02-01 21:59:23 EST
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kickstart file for bug (1.67 KB, text/plain) 2004-10-19 10:46 EDT, david d zuhn	no flags	Details
My ks file (1.02 KB, text/plain) 2004-10-20 06:46 EDT, Paul Nasrat	no flags	Details
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Description david d zuhn 2004-10-19 10:44:20 EDT

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Description of problem:
I have a kickstart file for FC3test3, and this file contains a 
keyboard directive.  Yet when I perform an installation using this
config file, I am still being prompted for a keyboard choice.








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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use the kickstart config file attached to this bug
2. see the prompt for keyboard type
3. enter a keyboard type
    

Expected Results:  The keyboard directive should be honored.  

Additional info:

Comment 1 david d zuhn 2004-10-19 10:46:10 EDT

Created attachment 105449 [details]
kickstart file for bug

This kickstart file is loaded via http:

Kernel command line: initrd=/install/fedora/3t3/initrd.img ksdevice=eth0
ks=http://lab/ks/machine/trabant3/fc3t3.ks console=ttyS0,9600
BOOT_IMAGE=/install/fedora/3t3/vmlinuz vnc vncconnect=homestake

Comment 2 Paul Nasrat 2004-10-20 06:46:44 EDT

Created attachment 105503 [details]
My ks file

Unable to reproduce here.

Tested with a FC3T3 tree and above kickstart using uk initially then changing
to us for keyboard directive.  The kickstart boots up into graphical and goes
straight to reading package information, before formatting and installing.  No
additional input required.

Can you confirm with above config just changing the url/nfs line as appropriate
for your setup?

Comment 3 david d zuhn 2004-10-20 11:19:57 EDT

Yes, I can confirm the bug.  I also had to change the disk
partitioning from hda to sda, but using your attached kickstart file I
was again prompted for a keyboard type.  This was the only prompt for
user input.

Some more information about my configuration:  this is a Dell 2650
machine, pxebooting the installation, using a serial console for the
installation.   There is no keyboard actually attached to this system.

Comment 4 Paul Nasrat 2004-10-20 13:05:58 EDT

Can you retest with a keyboard attached?

Comment 5 david d zuhn 2004-10-20 13:53:56 EDT

Tested again, with full keyboard/mouse/video setup attached.  No
change in behavior -- I'm still prompted for a keyboard type.

I then tried it without the serial console (no console= argument on
the kernel command line), and it proceeded to do a complete
installation, without prompting for the keyboard type.

Comment 6 david d zuhn 2004-10-20 14:08:51 EDT

Just for comparison, running the same sort of setup (serial console,
no keyboard, pxebooted kernel) works fine on RHEL 4b1 (Nahant).

Comment 7 Jeremy Katz 2005-02-01 21:59:23 EST

Add 'serial' to your command line options and it'll work.  It's fixed post-FC3

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