On 04/16/2010 09:36 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 08:03 -0600, David S. Ahern wrote: >> >> On 04/14/2010 08:01 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Amos Kong <ak...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Lucas, >>>> >>>> When I execute unattended_install testcases on RHEL-5.5, it always fail >>>> when using rhel3.9-32 guest. >>>> I found it blocked after packages installation. Is it related that >>>> rhel39-32 guest don't support acpi ? >>> >>> I've hit this problem before, it is what I believe to be an anaconda >>> bug on that particular RHEL version. I tried a *lot* to work around >>> the problem, spent a lot of time with it, but in the end I just gave >>> up. >>> >>> The problem happens because it's simply not possible to bring the >>> network up at post install stage so the install can communicate with >>> the host to respond that its installation finished. If anyone can help >>> to work around the problem that'd be great... >> >> What commands are you running to configure the network and what command >> is stalling? I've done unattended installs with RHEL3.8, 32-bit guests >> with networking enabled. > > To add some background to the discussion, RHEL3.9 64 bit works just > fine. The kickstart file that installs pretty much all RH based systems > tries to configure the network by calling 'dhclient eth0'. In order to > work, some networking kernel modules need to be loaded. > > While debugging the problem, I discovered that it wasn't possible to > load some of the iptables kernel modules (I don't remember exactly which > ones). So I tried many strategies, loading the modules specifying paths, > etc... nothing worked. It seems like those essential networking modules > in the install kernel for 32 bit are missing due to some build problem.
Ok, so it's firewall related. RHEL3 uses a BOOT kernel and only a subset of the kernel modules are included in the modules.cgz. It should contain all of the drivers for the NICs, so networking alone should be fine. Why are the iptables rules needed to tell the host that the install has completed? David > > Sure, once the install finished the system will boot on a functional > kernel, but the kernel used by the install system just can't load the > modules, rendering our unattended install system useless, since the host > need to be able to verify whether the guest finished the install through > socket communication. > >> David >> >> >>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Amos >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Autotest mailing list >>>> autot...@test.kernel.org >>>> http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
