I've had this same issue. I haven't had time to investigate the root cause but the problem seems to be that the url in the kickstart script is lower-case but the actual url has upper-case characters. Check your distro label and change the case of the url to match .e.g /dist/CentOS5.2_i386
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, John McNulty <[email protected]>wrote: > > We're trying to do a bare metal install of a system but experiencing a > problem when the boot tries to read the stage2.img file over http. > > The iso of the CentOS 5.2 distribution DVD is loop back mounted to > /mnt/CentOS5_i386 and this is the tree path for its distribution channel. > The Kickstart profile is all set up, and I've used "cobbler buildiso" to > create a bootable ISO to burn a CD from. It boots from the CD and presents > the list of profiles. I select the profile I want and off it goes. That is > until it tries to transfer over the stage2.img file. Looking at the console > log on <Alt>-F3 it resolves the hostname ok and then runs through a list of > image files and locations looking for one it can use. Eventually it gives > up. > > I tried browsing to the URL it's looking at: > http://bhypdev.ydh.yha.com/ks/dist/centos5.2_i386/images/stage2.img but > what I get instead is a "Page not found" screen from Spacewalk: > > "The page you requested, /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do, was not found" > > I've repeated this using a standard CentOS 5.2 boot CD and specifying the > Kickstart URL at the boot prompt but that also takes me to the same point. > I've double checked the network by using the IP address instead of the FQDN > and then examined the contents of <Alt-F3> and it resolves the IP address to > the name, so I'm pretty sure it's a config issue on the Spacewalk server. > > Any suggestions? > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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