Short answer: Until you get to Stage 2 of Anaconda, it is quite _minimal_ of a system.
Long Answer: It's more than just isolinux. The Anaconda build may not have the features/scripting to support such an image. I've only seen this supported in Anaconda in F12+ (2010+). EL5 is really, really dated, based on FC6 (circa 2006). More simply put, I've had to extensively modify Anaconda, Stateless, etc... in the past for EL5, for things that have been in stock, newer Fedora releases. I think you're doing something that is wholly unsupported in the EL5 Anaconda installer. That's why I adamant about your posting such information upfront. Just because it works for newer Fedora releases, possibly even EL6, doesn't mean it works for EL5. I do not believe Anaconda (especailly not Stage 1) in EL5 will be able to figure out the format of the USB device formatted in this manner. I'd probably have to see the storage-system myself to debug the issue, and discretely prove this to you in-person with the actual messages and Anaconda code. ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: Nuno Fernandes <npf-mli...@eurotux.com> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 1:43 PM Hello, Thanks for the information but the problem isn't booting. I've updated syslinux to the required version to support booting isos from usb. The process is somewhat like: mkisofs creates install disk (.ISO file) isohybrid transforms the iso file so that it can be DD'ed to an usb disk dd if=ISOFILE of=/dev/usbdevice boot machine with usb device. Boot occurs normaly as i'm presented with splashimage. Select install option (subset from isolinux.cfg): ... label etva-smb-kvm-usb menu label ^Install ETVA-SMB-KVM from USBSTICK (This will erase all disks) kernel vmlinuz MENU HIDE append initrd=initrd.img ks=hd:sdc1:/ks.smb.kvm.usb.cfg ... Instalation starts... because the KS file has "askmethod" directive anaconda askes for media where it can find the iso files. I select /dev/sdc1 (usb drive). In this point it fails because anaconda finds the exploded tree of install in /dev/sdc1 and not the iso files. Booting the ISO file from CDROM and using a kickstart with "cdrom" method it works fine. Thanks for any help, Nuno Fernandes _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
