Bug 461230 - cmdline kickstart option not honored
Summary: cmdline kickstart option not honored
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 456325
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-05 08:07 UTC by Alexander Todorov
Modified: 2008-09-05 14:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-05 14:02:38 UTC
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Description Alexander Todorov 2008-09-05 08:07:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
Anaconda falls back to curses based text mode even though cmdline kickstrat option is given

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-11.1.2.113-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a virtual guest with less than 288MB RAM (200MB, PV Xen guest) * 
2. Provide a complete kickstart file which contains 'cmdline' command
3. Proceed with install
4. X can't start (not enough memory, X not on minstg2.img) - anaconda falls
back to curses based text mode instead of going to cmdline mode.

* - in the code GUI_STAGE2_RAM 294912 = 288MB
  
Actual results:
Anaconda runs in text mode instead of cmdline mode

Expected results:
Anaconda will run in cmdline mode

Additional info:
When the machine has enough memory to run the GUI (i.e. 512MB) it successfully starts the cmdline mode.

See comments 4, 5, 6 at bug #456110 for patches
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2008-09-05 14:02:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 456325 ***
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