Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7211
kickstart-file generated with mkkickstart bombs on install
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:39:51 EST
hello there. i generated a simple kickstart file with mkkickstart on a redhat 6.1 box (intel) and tried to use it to install another machine. the file looks as follows lang en_US cdrom install %packages LIST_OF_PACKAGES %post i took the default boot image from the cd, removed a message and placed the ks.cfg there. after boot, i typed at the prompt linux ks=floppy when the install goes to the point right after /sbin/loader, it bombs with some cryptic error messages (pythonian) and halts thr system. any suggestions? cheers, helmut.
Please send the text of the error message which is getting generated and we should be able to tell you what is happening. The file that you provided looks fine to me, so I am betting that something in your list of packages is causing the problem you are seeing.
hi there. i wont be able to make another install until next weekend due to the fact that the machines are being used by the users at the moment. in the meantime i can send you the complete kickstart file. let me know if you want the exact error message output. it was something about python errors. here's the ks.cfg: lang en_US cdrom install mouse ps/2 --emulthree %packages setup filesystem basesystem ldconfig AfterStep AfterStep-APPS AnotherLevel ElectricFence ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel glibc shadow-utils mktemp termcap libtermcap bash MAKEDEV ncurses info ORBit SysVinit WindowMaker X11R6-contrib chkconfig fileutils utempter XFree86 mingetty gawk sed e2fsprogs console-tools procps vixie-cron modutils logrotate xv psmisc grep tcsh initscripts XFree86-libs XFree86-xfs chkfontpath XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-SVGA Xaw3d Xconfigurator apmd arpwatch ash at audiofile authconfig autoconf automake bc bdflush binutils bison byacc bzip2 cdp compat-glibc compat-libs control-panel rmt cpio cpp cracklib cracklib-dicts crontabs cvs textutils dev dev86 dialog diffutils ed egcs egcs-c++ egcs-g77 egcs-objc eject elm emacs emacs-X11 emacs-el emacs-leim emacs-nox enscript esound etcskel expect fetchmail fetchmailconf file findutils finger fnlib fortune-mod freetype ftp fvwm fvwm2 fvwm2-icons gd gdb gdbm getty_ps ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gimp gimp-data-extras gimp-libgimp glib glib10 gmp gnome-audio gnome-libs gnuchess gnuplot gpm gqview groff gtk+ gtk+10 gtk-engines guile gv gzip hdparm ical imlib imlib-cfgeditor indent indexhtml ipchains isapnptools ispell kbdconfig kernel kernel-doc kernel-headers kernel-pcmcia-cs kernel-source kernelcfg kudzu ld.so less libPropList libc libghttp libglade libgr libgr-progs libgtop libjpeg libpcap libpng libstdc++ libtiff libtool libungif libxml libxml10 lilo pwdb pam sh-utils redhat-release linuxconf losetup sysklogd lsof lynx m4 macutils mailcap mailx make man man-pages mawk metamail minicom mkbootdisk mkinitrd mkkickstart mkxauth mount mouseconfig mpage mt-st mtools ncompress net-tools netcfg netkit-base netscape-common netscape-communicator netscape-navigator newt ntsysv passwd patch pciutils perl pidentd pine portmap procmail pump pygtk python python-tools pythonlib quota raidtools rcs rdist readline redhat-logos rootfiles routed rpm rpmfind rsh rxvt sash screen sendmail sendmail-cf sendmail-doc setconsole setserial setuptool sharutils slang slocate stat symlinks talk tar tcl tclx tcp_wrappers tcpdump telnet tetex tetex-afm tetex-doc tetex-dvilj tetex-dvips tetex-fonts tetex-latex tetex-xdvi time timeconfig timetool tix tk tkinter tksysv tmpwatch traceroute transfig tree umb-scheme units unzip urw-fonts usermode util-linux uucp vim-X11 vim-common vim-enhanced vim-minimal which wmakerconf wmconfig words xanim xbill xboing xfig xinitrc xloadimage xlockmore tripwire xpaint xpdf xpm xscreensaver xsri xtrojka xxgdb zip zlib bind-utils XFree86-devel glibc-profile libelf glibc-devel glib-devel netdate logcheck mpeg_play LPRng %post
Your mouse line should be "mouse genericps/2 --emulthree" That should solve the problem. Reopen this bug if it down not!