On 01/27/2010 09:51 PM, Moeur Tim C wrote: > CPU, it stops and I have to enter that information manually.
> It is possible that the other > strange 'logon to an SSH session to continue' requirement that both Sue > and I saw is also resolved by adding that second CPU. When the installer starts with its init process, you get the network quiz on the line-mode 3270 console. After that quiz, the default is to wait for a login through ssh over the network before starting the loader which prepares the start of anaconda in turn. This is to provide a full-screen capable terminal that can run the loader displaying a full-screen TUI. If you have specified RUNKS=1 in the parm file, then the installer will directly start loader after the quiz without waiting for an ssh login. Since this will start loader on the 3270 console, you usually also provide "cmdline" and reference a kickstart file in the parm file. In contrast to GUI or TUI modes, the installer will be non-interactive in cmdline mode and only output lines without any full-screen escape sequences on the terminal, so you can read the install progress nicely on 3270. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/s1-s390-steps-vm.html If now parm file options cannot be seen by the installer, it cannot see RUNKS=1 and needs an ssh login by default to continue installation. > -----Original Message----- > From: Moeur Tim C > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:27 PM > We use a kickstart process here and so I don't have to specify a root > password but after I've manually entered the network stuff, the > installation pauses on the 3270 side with a message of "Now go logon as > root with ssh to continue the installation" (or some such). Different > from Sue's, however, is that when I ssh to the IP address, I'm not > prompted for root's password. It simply accepts that I'm logging on as > root and continues. After I get on with no password, the 3270 screen > takes off again and continues the installation. Hm, so somehow the kickstart= option was seen by the installer in your case. I suspect, the installation continues to output its progress on the 3270 console after the loader was started and has downloaded the kickstart file most probably because you have the "cmdline" option in your parm file or your kickstart file. Otherwise you would get a blue TUI in the ssh session. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Sue Sivets > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:00 PM > the 5.3 install, the system prompted me for the password that I wanted > to use for root, the 5.4 system is not doing that, but it does tell me That is strange. I haven't seen RHEL 5 to ask for the root password of the install image during the network quiz on the 3270 console. Only later during the blue TUI or the GUI, anaconda would ask for the root password it would set in the installed system. > when I can log in to the new system as user root, using SSH. Of course > when I try to do that, I get prompted for roots password. If there is a > default, I don't know what it is, and so far everything I've tried in > both upper and lower case has not worked. The root user of the install image has a null password, so it should not ask for one. Sorry, I don't have enough details to determine what happened here. > SUBCHANNELS="0.0.E017,0.0.E018,0.0.E019" Independent of the actual problem here at hand, it might be safer to specify device bus IDs in lower case hex digits, since that is what Linux wants to interpret. The installer converts the digits to lower case since RHEL 5.4 to ensure upper case input works as well. However, other components such as ifcfg files might still only work with lower case hex digits. > NETWORK="192.168.250.0" > BROADCAST="192.168.250.255" You don't need to specify NETWORK and BROADCAST with RHEL 5.4 any more. If you do, they are simply ignored. NETMASK together with IPADDR is sufficient for the installer to automatically determine the network and broadcast address. Steffen Linux on System z Development IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
