Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 147542
Anaconda prompts for values defined in kickstart on NON-interactive installs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: kickstart config was working with FC2. Now on FC3 with anaconda-10, it immediately prompts for keyboard, even tho it is defined in the kickstart file. The kickstart does not have autostep or interactive in it. Here is the beginning of the ks: cdrom install keyboard us text lang en_US.UTF-8 langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 mouse genericwheelps/2 --device psaux skipx deviceprobe network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname SP00000 network --device eth1 --bootproto static --ip 10.255.155.54 --netmask 255.255.255.248 --hostname SP00000 rootpw --iscrypted $1$YRnDbyv0$.DCDR4ZFS7isotPdLwkZe0 firewall --disabled authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles bootloader --location=mbr --useLilo clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 part /usr --fstype ext3 --size=5000 part /var --fstype ext3 --size=2000 part / --fstype ext3 --size=2000 part swap --size=512 part /home --fstype ext3 --size=1000 part /sp --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow %packages ... On FC2 with anaconda 9.? the installer got to wokr right away. Now it asks for everything i have already defined . Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.0.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Simply use this kickstart file with any package list and it will fail 2. 3. Actual Results: System boots and immediately asks for keyboard type, while displaying the value already selected in the kickstart file (us). Expected Results: System should have just begun installing as it did under FC2 Additional info:
Is this a serial install? If so, try adding 'serial' to your boot command line and it should fix it (and then it's fixed to not even need that in CVS)
i can do that. The boot command line already contains console=ttyS0... i should use serial in addition? thanks
i should have been more clear.. this is the isolinux.cfg file that is on the CD that we kickstart from: Aside from telling the boot loader to serial, do you want me to put serial in the append lines? serial 0 38400 default harddisk prompt 1 timeout 600 display boot.msg label field kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img text ks=cdrom:/cdks.cfg console=ttyS0,38400 label manuf kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img text ks=cdrom console=ttyS0,38400 label expert kernel vmlinuz append rescue initrd=initrd.img text console=ttyS0,38400 label harddisk localboot 0x80
Yes, adding serial will fix it.