Spent the afternoon working on my kickstart installs and had a couple issues. If anyone can offer suggestion on what to Bugzilla against lemme know. I started to file against system-config-kickstart, but these may be more appropriate against anaconda, or some other module....
Issue 1 - USB bus scan delay = usb flash kickstart file not found If I boot with a flash device that also houses my kickstart file (ks=hd:sdb:/ks.cfg) I see some oddities - the usb-device module loads twice (in my case usb-device, cciss, lpfc, usb-device again) - the installer then pukes, stating that it cannot find the kickstart file If I look at the messages I can see that there's much commotion as the USB module installs and the bus scans, including a message that states "waiting while device settles" If I simply count to 30 and tell the installer to again try the specified location for the KS file it finds it as expected. Obviously, there's no way for a hands-free/unattended install if this happens Issue 2 - autostep halts on password entry In my KS file I specified to use autostep and do screen captures. This works, but for whatever reason it stops on the root password screen and requires manual entry of the password (and clicking of "next") before autostep again moves on for the balance of the install. Again, this precludes an automated / hands-off install. Issue 3 - redundant DHCP requests / long delay Much like the USB driver insertion, it seems that the system is asking for a DHCP address twice. Going strictly off what I see in the kernel & installer messages I have an IP, no problem, but then the installer asks for it again, and it takes an eternity to come back. However, can't really say if the delay is in my DHCP server or in the installer, but it still seems odd that it asks twice.. Don't know that I'll Bugzilla this one, but it's weird behavior (or I just need to understand why it does what it does) TIA Don _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
