@Ciaran - you are correct. The inst.ks has to be a network (http://) connection with RHEL-8 onward.
See this github discussion: https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere/issues/276 You will need something like inst.ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/ks.cfg in the "boot_command" section of your json file. Dan On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 3:33:45 AM UTC-6, Ciaran Courtney wrote: > I believe the floppy driver was dropped in RHEL8, theres a related issue > in github. Use http to serve kickstart instead. > > On Thursday, 30 January 2020 17:55:56 UTC, Aaron Kulbe wrote: >> >> I'm having issues getting RHEL 8.1 to boot and start an install with >> Packer. >> >> I took the working packer template for RHEL 7.7 and updated it to point >> to RHEL 8.1, so the changes are very minimal. >> >> As one troubleshooting step, I took packer out of the picture and did a >> manual install of RHEL and passed the kernel arguments to point to the >> location of the RHEL 8.1 kickstart file. That worked fine. >> >> I believe there's some issue with my packer config, but I'm not sure what >> it is. I've attached both templates for comparison. >> >> Thank you in advance for your help. >> >> Aaron Kulbe >> >> -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/4e84a632-2e77-4932-9b70-19ec7b7fae4e%40googlegroups.com.
