Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55045
Kickstart broken....
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:44 EDT
Description of Problem: A. mkkickstart fails to properly detect existing partitioning of disk B. Even when proper partitioning info is manually added to ks.cfg file and a kickstart install (linux ks=floppy) fails with error message: Error opening: kicktart file /tmp/ks.cfg: no such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Consistently Steps to Reproduce: 1. build system manually with customized partitioning 2. run 'mkkickstart > /mnt/floppy/ks.cfg a. open ks.cfg in editor (or use less) to verify partioning info is incorrect b. manually correct all partitioning info 3. boot new system off cdrom with 'linux ks=floppy' 4. watch it break Actual Results: Total and complete failure to install OS on system Expected Results: Er, a working system maybe? Additional Information: You might want to check out Sun's JumpStart, it works.
Created attachment 34902 [details] ks.config file
mkkickstart by default creates incorrect partitioning information. This is what I ended up for partitioning info with before manually correcting it: part swap --size 245 part /home --size 488 I don't understand why this is so broken, it should be trivial to figure out what the exising partitioning scheme is. I've attached a simple perl script you can use to figure this stuff out if you want it.
Created attachment 34941 [details] perl script to write out ks.cfg partition info
Tested this same ks.cfg file on a new 7.2 install and it failed with the same /tmp/ks.cfg: No such file or directory error as 7.1 does.
Thump, Thump, Thump. Hey, this thing working? Testing 1...2...3... Anyone here? Anyone. Is thing on? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Hmmm, maybe there's a minimum incubation period of 2 weeks before bug fixes hatch?
Outstanding! So now I've even succeeded to prove that 7.2 has the same bug. I used the anaconda-ks.cfg file created during 7.2 install, saved it to a floppy, booted an identical system using the 7.2 install CD and specified linux ks=floppy and I get an error stating: Error opening: kickstart file /tmp/ks.cf: No such file ir directory By the way, is anyone there even reading bug reports anymore? I have yet to even get an acknowledgement that anyone is receiving these reports.
*** Bug 55043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 55044 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Did you rename anaconda-ks.cfg ks.cfg? And, mkkickstart is gone now, replaced by anaconda-ks.cfg being generated.