Hello Astronauts, We are using Spacewalk release 0.5. We are Kickstarting our machines from it. We have created a channel for Kickstarting our RHEL5.3 machines, called "rhel5.3_x86_64_clone".
When we try to Kickstart, it stops with the aforementioned "Unable to retrieve stage2.img" error. But if we move on without changing anything, it works. Details follow... Details: We create an iso file with our initrd.img and ks.cfg in it. We mount that and boot off of it. In there, we have specified url --url http://10.52.151.21/ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone Our Kickstart advances to the point where it says "Unable to retrieve http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img";. (notice the double slash, but I don't think it's a problem). If I look at console 3, I can see things like 01:02:28 INFO : transferring http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/product.imgto a fd 01:02:31 INFO : 12296768 kB are available 01:02:31 INFO : transferring http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img to a fd 01:02:34 INFO : transferring http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/stage2.img to a fd ...and there it is stopped. So I go back to Screen 1, I hit OK, It takes me to the HTTP Setup screen. I don't change a thing. I notice that in the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server directory:" box, the path ends in "...dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone". Regardless, I hit "OK". Then I switch immediately to console 3 and take a screenshot. It does a bunch of transfers again, starting with 00:54:53 INFO : trying to mount CD device scd0 ... (then it tries to transfer images/updates.img "to a fd", disc1/images/updates.img, images/product.img, and disc1/images/product.img. The prefix to all of these is http://10.52.151.21//ks/dis/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/ . Finally, we get to:) 00:54:54 INFO : 12296768 kB are available 00:54:54 INFO : transferring http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img to a fd ...and the Kickstart completes successfully. Notice that that URL is the same as the one above, at 01:02:31. I don't know why it complained up above. Now we have a 4-port NIC installed in our machine, and this has made Linux think that our motherboard NIC is at "eth4", but on the network line in our ks.cfg we specify "--device=eth4", and regardless the point that bugs me is I don't change anything but I still need to do that manual step. How annoying. Any ideas? Thanks. -- -Mike Schwager
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