Thanks,

This gets it further along to where it hangs on running pre-install scripts. (There are no preinstall scripts). Where should I look to debug this?

On 10/20/2010 02:55 AM, Walther, Johannes wrote:
Hi John again,

I find a solution for me, I meen it is
possible that you do, as test, the same!
CentOS installtion works fine now!

in other mailings i found:

===========================================
Hi all,

         After spending another day of debugging I think I found the problem.
         There seems to be a bug in the kernel (2.6.18-194.el5) which was 
provided for pxe install on the CentOS 5.5 iso images. I could trigger it 
rproducilble via the following steps:

            * boot it via pxe in rescue mode
            * ensure you have a swap and a date (probably ext3) partition
            * try to mount the swap partition ->   this fails
            * try to mount the normal partition ->   system hangs ->   kernel 
panic

         Can anybody confirm/disprove this?
         @developers: Is there a way to change the kickstart pre script which 
tries to not mount a swap partition?

         Regards,
         Sascha Bendix

Sascha,

Can you try a solution real quick for me?
edit  /var/lib/rhn/kickstart/snippets/keep_system_id

and change:
     DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
to
DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | grep -v "swap\|LVM\|Extended" |
awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"

that should ensure that it doesn't try to mount any of those types of
partitions (it seemed that even if it excluded swap but tried to mount
LVM, it would fail).
The above change seemed to work really well for me.

-Justin Sherrill
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Johannes Walther [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010 03:57
An: John Holland
Cc: Walther, Johannes
Betreff: Spacewalk Issue - CentOS kickstarting

Hi John,

Sory, for write you directly, but I cant send messages to the list....
I dont know why.

I have had the same Problem like you wrote in your Mail to the List.
-->  [Spacewalk-list] trying to get CentOS 5.5 to kickstart

In Spacewalk I have the channels: CentOS-5.5; Fedora-12;
Fedora-13; i386
+ x86_64. All with child-channels update; epel; rhn-tools, different
names.

All fedora  works fine, but boot CentOS, i386 + x86_64, stop
on the same
screen like yours. What can i do vor debug this. On the blue-screen
point the bash (F2) doesn't work.

Cheers and thanks
Johannes



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