Description of Problem: I have three ide harddisk on a box in which i am trying to install redhat 7.0 using kickstart. i opted for a raid 5 across the disk on / and on /boot raid 1 across two disks. I have a copy of the updated errata boot image but that does solve the problem. I boot the machine in which i want to install on and type the following "linux updates ks=floppy". The installation starts then it stops at a blue screen with error messages. How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: A blue screen with words across the screen making references to the todo.py file Expected Results: installation of redhat 7.0 using kickstart with raid 5 across / and raid 1 across /boot. Additional Information:
Is it possible to attach the error message? I don't have much to go on without that. Also, attaching your kickstart file might be useful.
This is the context of my kickstart file 'ks.cfg'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lang en keyboard uk network --bootproto dhcp --hostname node1.icepicc.co.uk zerombr yes clearpart --all part raid.01 --size 80 --grow --ondisk hda part raid.02 --size 80 --grow --ondisk hdb part raid.03 --size 80 --grow --ondisk hdc part swap --size 256 --ondisk hda part swap --size 256 --ondisk hdb part swap --size 256 --ondisk hdbc part raid.11 --size 80 --ondisk hda part raid.12 --size 80 --ondisk hdb raid / --level 5 --device md0 raid.01 raid.02 raid.03 raid /boot --level 1 --device md1 raid.11 raid.12 install url --url http://10.0.0.5/rh device ethernet eepro100 mouse genericps/2 --emulthree timezone Europe/London xconfig --server "/etc/X11/X: broken symbolic link to ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86" --monitor "generic monitor" rootpw --iscrypted $1$rNGksn/g$6.Zv2BHk6fSWhSTR7uPW91 auth --useshadow lilo --location mbr %packages filesystem glibc mktemp libtermcap anacron ncurses fileutils ash authconfig automake bdflush binutils byacc bzip2-devel sed cpio cproto cracklib-dicts ctags db1 db3 dev diffutils e2fsprogs eject findutils freetype gawk gcc-c++ gd gdb gdbm-devel glib glibc-devel gnupg gpm-devel gzip indent iproute isapnptools popt sysklogd modutils kernel-pcmcia-cs kernel-utils krb5-devel pam krb5-libs kudzu-devel libjpeg libpng libstdc++ libtermcap-devel libtiff-devel perl libtool-libs textutils linuxconf-devel lsof mailcap make man mingetty mkinitrd mouseconfig ncompress net-tools netpbm-devel newt-devel ntsysv openssl passwd pciutils pidentd psmisc python python-xmlrpc rdate readline redhat-logos rhn_register rootfiles rpm-build rpm-python rsh-server sash setuptool slang slocate strace SysVinit tcp_wrappers time tmpwatch ucd-snmp unzip utempter vim-common which XFree86-libs zip zlib-devel apache-devel mkkickstart setup basesystem chkconfig termcap bash apmd info grep at autoconf bc bind-utils bison bzip2 cdecl console-tools cpp cracklib crontabs cyrus-sasl db2 shadow-utils dev86 diffstat dump ed file flex ftp gcc gcc-g77 gd-devel gdbm gettext kernel-headers gmp gpm groff hdparm initscripts iputils kbdconfig logrotate vixie-cron kernel kernel-source kgcc pwdb sh-utils kudzu less libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libstdc++-devel libtiff m4 libtool lilo linuxconf losetup ltrace mailx MAKEDEV man-pages mkbootdisk mount ncftp ncurses-devel netpbm newt njamd patch pciutils-devel pmake procps pump python-devel quota rcs rdist readline-devel redhat-release rmt rpm rpm-devel rsh rsync screen setserial shapecfg slang-devel stat sysstat tar tcpdump timeconfig traceroute ucd-snmp-utils up2date util-linux vim-minimal words xinetd zlib apache apache-manual raidtools %post ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Below is the error messages which appear: File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 375, in_ _init _ _ self.setclass (instClass) File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1088, in setClass todo.language.setBy Abbrev(todo.instclass.languague) File "/tmp/updates todo.py", line 245, in setAbbrev, in SetByAbbrev self.set (self.abbrevMap[lang]) keyError: en install exited abnormally sending termination signals ..done Spending kill signals ... done disabling swap.... unmounting filesystems ..... /mnt/runtime/usr /proc/bus/usb /mnt/runtime /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system
I think I see the problem. You need to say 'lang en_US' at the beginning of your kickstart file instead of 'lang en'. Please refer to the kickstart documentation for all the kickstart options (http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7.1-Manual/customization-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html)