On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Johnson, Kent A (GE Healthcare) <kent.john...@med.ge.com> wrote: > Hi Artem, > > Just to reiterate, this is the stock SL6.1 single DVD ISO image I'm using. > SL6.1 is the first time that networkmanager is introduced for installation. > > I've tried your network line and several others as well as no network line in > the kickstart, but, the networkmanager still pops up to configure the network > device. Everything works great if I configure the network at the popup, even > if eth0 is already fully configured by the KS. > > By hitting CANCEL on the networkmanager popup and then looking at CTRL-ALT-F3 > output, I've now determined that it is trying to get security updates from > the SL ftp repo. And, even though I've tried fully configuring the only > ethernet device (eth0), networkmanager still pops up exactly at this point > (preparing to get security updates from the SL ftp repo. > > I'm thinking that I may have to reroll the stock image to eliminate this if > possible, ulness there is some other boot or KS option that will stop > networkmanager from popping up...
Hold it. Is it first asking you to *select* among several available network devices? And have you included the "ksdevice=eth0", or whatever is your relevant network port, in your command line options at the beginning of your kickstart selections? I'm sorry if you've already said and I don't have it, but I'm remember problems I've had with multiple network devices and explaining to the anaconda system that I want *THAT* one, no, I'm not kidding, don't bother me about the rest. And Anaconda has been getting updated, upstream, to suppport new hardware and resolve some old issues, so there well may have been a subtle bug introduced upstream.
