Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 62887
kickstart install fails with ks=hd:fd0/hostname.ks
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:44 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: If I create a floppy disk containing a kickstart file, but name the file something other than ks.cfg, kickstart will fail to use it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a trivial kickstart file 2.copy it to the disk with the name foo.ks 3.boot from the bootnet floppy with `linux ks=hd:fd0/foo.ks dd' 4.load the driver disk Actual Results: Error opening: kickstart file /tmp/ks.cfg: No such file or directory. If I omit the `dd', it doesn't report any error, and just proceeds to asking the installation language. Expected Results: It would be nice if it would just work. Additional info:
This just worked for me with a kickstart config named ks.foo and booting with 'linux ks=hd:fd0/ks.foo'. Are there any error messages listed on tty3?
Hmm... Perhaps there is only a problem in the case of the `dd'. This was booting off a bootnet.img floppy, btw. I didn't have virtual consoles at such an early stage to tell whether there were any messages there. Anyway, I'm confused as to why kickstart installation didn't work when I didn't use the driver disk. Perhaps it had trouble with network detection (it's an rtl8139 card, whose driver is not present in bootnet.img) and fell back to manual installation?
8139too is actually on bootnet, so you shouldn't need a driver disk. What did the kickstart config look like (mine didn't get to stage 2, but that's just because I specified a non-existent NFS path for it to mount :-) And you should have the different VCs at that point to look and get more information, tty3 just tends to scroll fast early :/
Hmm... I don't see it in modules.cgz in the initrd.img in bootnet.img. Curiously, mii.o is there, but 8139too depends on mii.o and, when the driver disk is loaded, is says it loads the mii module. Anyway, without the driver disk I could not get it to recognize the rtl8139 card and, as soon as I had the driver disk in, it worked fine. I'll attach the config file.
Created attachment 52809 [details] libero.ks
Oops, moved 8139too back to bootnet. Somehow had a couple of drivers migrate. I'll look into the other part shortly.
Aha, I bet I know what's going on -- do you have the kickstart config on the boot floppy or the driver disk? The kickstart config is loaded after the driver disk, so it would need to be on the latter.
Tried that too, it didn't help. But having the kickstart file in the boot floppy works, as long as it is named ks.cfg. There's probably some code supposed to save a copy of it in /tmp, but such code fails to take other names into account. I'd also guess it won't work if I try kickstart includes.
%pre gets processed long after driver disks (it's not done until we get stage 2 loaded), so has very little effect for %include. I just did a test with the older tree where 8139too isn't on bootnet with 'linux dd ks=hd:fd0/ks.foo' and had it work properly loading the kickstart config off of the driver disk. Which, although a little odd, is correct as far as its always been. Were there any messages on tty3 about being unable to copy the file?
Hmm... It worked this time. How odd... I was even more surprised because I couldn't find the kickstart file in the drivers disk. Perhaps I goofed and failed to unmount /mnt/floppy before removing it? I can't promise this didn't happen, unfortunately :-( Oh, well... At least I'm now happy cause I won't need the drivers disk for final :-) Sorry about the noise :-(