On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Troy Dawson <daw...@fnal.gov> wrote: > On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Rich wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I've got questions about two different failure modes I experienced >> while trying to kickstart SL6.1 on some hardware to play with. >> >> First, when I kickstarted it on this hardware, it immediately >> hardlocked (display black, keyboard unresponsive with no lights on or >> blinking, no network activity), I believe while trying to bring up the >> network (I can't tell; it doesn't have network up prior to dying, so >> remote syslog isn't working, and then it's utterly responseless >> afterward). I booted it with noprobe, and it came up, but as soon as I >> tried to load the forcedeth module for its onboard NIC, /sbin/loader >> experienced SIGSEGV. This happens reproducibly. >> >> Second, when I tried installing 6.1 with the 6.0 vmlinuz/initrd.img >> (where the above problem didn't occur at all), if I try to install in >> text or graphical mode, it complains "Please add the following >> sections and try again" "Bootloader configuration", where I know I >> have bootloader specified correctly and not inside a pre/post/packages >> section (I use "bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda"; sans >> quotes, obviously) - this looked similar to RH bug #506428, so I >> figured I'd give cmdline mode a try. >> If I use "cmdline" install mode, I fail with "In interactive step >> timezone, can't continue" - which looks like RH bug 462595 or 672095. >> >> Thoughts, anyone? >> >> - Rich > > Hi Rich, > I just want to narrow down some things. > > For your kickstarts, you are using a pxeboot kickstart?
Correct. > OK, the real question is, how are you booting and starting your kickstart? root@gwln1:/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg>cat netboot-sl61.x86_64.private default linux label linux kernel vmlinuz-sl60.x86_64 append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd-sl60.x86_64.img ip=dhcp network ks=nfs:[private IP of KS server]:/export/d0/kickstart/sl61/phaconfigs/ ksdevice=eth0 nokill loglevel=debug syslog=[private IP of KS server] cmdline > Are you able to kickstart, using the same kickstart, with SL 6.0? > (with the one obvious change that the kickstart is pointing to 6.1 versus > 6.0) Are you asking if I can do what the above pxelinux config says, wherein I use the SL6 pxeboot initrd/vmlinuz and point it at SL61, or if I can kickstart SL60 with the identical kickstart file with s/sl61/sl60/g? The former results in the behavior I described in my original email; the latter I have not tried, and will doso now. I can provide the KS file(s) I'm using - would it be preferable for me to post a URL to them, or attach them all? - Rich