On 03/04/2010 09:12 PM, Mark Post wrote:
On 3/4/2010 at 08:48 PM, Lee Stewart<lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net> wrote:
Is anyone doing Kickstart installs on RedHat 5.4?
No matter what I tried, it acted as if it wasn't reading the CMS config
file (for the install network), much less the kickstart file... And
there don't seem to be any logs or anything else...
There's been some discussion recently about an Anaconda bug that show up if you
have only 1 processor defined or exactly 2GB of storage defined. What's your
system look like?
When installing to a z/VM guest or LPAR that is configured with 1 CPU and/or
less than 2 GB storage (memory), the installer will prompt for the network
configuration, regardless of whether these parameters appear in the PARM or
CONF files. This is due to an unexpected side effect of a kernel change in
RHEL 5.4, and will be fixed in the RHEL 5.5 installer.
There are multiple ways to workaround this issue:
First, define at least 2 CPUs to the LPAR or z/VM guest. Note that if running
under z/VM, defining an additional CPU does not require an additional physical
IFL.
If an additional CPU cannot be defined, the second workaround is to define at
least 2 GB storage (memory) to this guest or LPAR. Note that under z/VM, this
does not require additional physical storage.
If neither of these workarounds are possible, customers can contact Red Hat
support to
obtain an intermediate kernel fix before RHEL 5.5 is released.
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