I changed the DVD content however I had checksum implanted on the new iso
before burning the DVD. I used implantisomd5 for this. Wouldn't that take care
of iso checksum?
I also don't see shell or debug consoles when I press Alt-F2/3/4. This will aid
me in troubleshooting if somehow I can see the details of what is going on
during the installation.
I tried booting into rescue mode as well however I don't see any relevant logs
from the previous installation attempt. I certainly can use some pointers here.
Thank you so much!
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From: Moray Henderson <[email protected]>
To: 'Megha Agrawal' <[email protected]>; 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: installation halts at two different points
From:Megha Agrawal [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 29 August 2012 09:25
I am using kickstart to automate CentOS 5.5 installation. I have successfully
burnt an iso and installed using this. Next I added a few more packages to this
iso and this time when I try installing, it went on smoothly until in the end
where it got stuck saying "installing boot loader". Nothing happened afterwards.
I ejected the DVD, put it back and then tried once again - this time installer
halts in the very beginning at "Running Anaconda the CentOS system installer ..
please wait.. ".
Subsequent attempts keep halting in the beginning at "Running Anaconda the
CentOS system installer .. please wait.. ".
What could have been going wrong? I have only added a few packages/rpms this
time.
That’s quite an old CentOS you’re using – the supported one is 5.8.
One possibility is a corrupt DVD. Now that you’ve changed the contents of the
DVD the built-in iso checksum won’t work, but you could generate checksums of
every file in your source directory and compare them with checksums read from
the DVD.
Alt-F2, -F3 and -F4 switch you to a shell and debug consoles. Alt-F1 gives the
install console again. ps at the shell prompt can show what’s going on in the
installer, and the debug consoles may contain useful error messages.
Moray.
“To err is human; to purr, feline.”
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