>>>>> "bbenedetto" == bbenedetto <bbenede...@goodyear.com> writes:
bbenedetto> I can kickstart RHEL 7.2 with no problems. bbenedetto> And I can kickstart CentOS 7.2 also with no problems. bbenedetto> bbenedetto> But every time I try to kickstart CentOS 6.6, it instead bbenedetto> prompts me to "Choose a Language" and I end up doing a bbenedetto> manual install. During that session I can interactively bbenedetto> go through the menus and point to my CentOS 6.6 repo and bbenedetto> do the install that way which works just fine. bbenedetto> For those of you interested, we have met the enemy and it is us bbenedetto> (naturall). bbenedetto> My problem was in the initial file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg that bbenedetto> says: "here's the kernel and the ramdisk and the kickstart URL". bbenedetto> My file looked like this (which works for RHEL/CentOS 7.x, BTW): bbenedetto> kernel centos66/vmlinuz bbenedetto> append initrd=centos66/initrd.img inst.ks=http://192.168.0.101/centos66/centos66-anaconda-ks.cfg bbenedetto> I got that file from an admin in another of our tech centers and bbenedetto> it works great with RHEL/CentOS 7.x. So I of course figured it bbenedetto> would/should work for CentOS 6.6, right? Wrong. bbenedetto> I'm sure that the more eagle-eyed among you have already seen it, bbenedetto> but CentOS 6.6 doesn't understand "inst.ks=http://...";. So when bbenedetto> it booted vmlinuz and the ramdisk, it never even SAW the bbenedetto> kickstart side of the world. bbenedetto> I changed "inst.ks=http://..."; to "ks=http://...": bbenedetto> kernel centos66/vmlinuz bbenedetto> append initrd=centos66/initrd.img ks=http://192.168.0.101/centos66/centos66-anaconda-ks.cfg bbenedetto> and, lo and behold, the kickstart was found and read and used. This is why I hate RHEL Kickstart at times. They don't seem to believe in backwards compatibility (though in this case you got caught by *forwards* incompatibility) and it's always a pain to debug. But when it works, it's a treat... but it could be made smarter for sure. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
