From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Kick Start install client is an IBM e325 server. Boot from CD-R to start the install. Client gets IP info from DHCP, then does an NFS mount (detailed in /var/log/messages on the Kick Start server). Then the install dies with the following: Kick Start Error Messages Exception Occured Traceback ( most recent call Last ): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", Line 1081, in ? intf.run (id, dispatch, configfileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", Line 422, in run (steps, args) = dispatch.currentStep ( ) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 262 in Current Step Self.gotoNext ( ) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", Line 157 in goto Next Self.moveStep ( ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-20.ELsmp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert either AMD64 RHEWS2 Disc 1 or boot disk made from isolinux dir 2. Type "linux ks=nfs:10.1.4.171:/home/kickstart/av64_install- ks.cfg" or just type av64_install as per isolinux.cfg 3. Error message occurs Actual Results: Not possible Expected Results: Kick Start install started as detailed in av64_install-ks.cfg on Kick Start server Additional info:
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rc = apply (func, self.bindArgs (args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/autopart.py", line 1337 in do AutoPartition do Partition ( diskset, Partitions, do Refresh = 0) file "/usr/lib/anaconda/autopart.py", Line 990 in do Partitioning ( ret, msg) = ProcessPartitioning (diskset, requests, newparts ) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/autopart.py", Line 934, in process partioning ret = fit sized ( diskset, requests, 1, netparts ) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/autopart.py", Line 334, in fitsized disk = diskset.disks [drive] Key Error :hda /usr/lib/anaconda/autopat.py (334) fitsized( ) disk = diskset.disks [ drive ]
It looks like your kickstart config specifies the use of the disk "hda" while your machine has no IDE disks (probably only SCSI disks, eg, sda, instead).