Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-03 Thread Rich
By the way, my problems can be resolved with a few things. 1) Explicitly end pre/post/packages sections with %end, and most of the errors will go away. 2) Using nomodeset as a kernel flag because (in my case, nouveau) barfs on this hardware, causing the black screen I described. - Rich 2011/8/2

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-02 Thread Rich
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

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-02 Thread Rich
I am unsurprised to report that SL 6.0 with the identical kickstart file also stops on In interactive step timezone, can't continue - Rich On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Rich rerc...@pha.jhu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: On 07/27/2011 05:23

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-02 Thread Troy Dawson
Can you post the top half of your kickstart file, up to the Packages section. If you want, you can xxx out anything you think is private. Troy On 08/02/2011 11:33 AM, Rich wrote: I am unsurprised to report that SL 6.0 with the identical kickstart file also stops on In interactive step

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-02 Thread Rich
=== x86_64.dss.private === network --bootproto=dhcp nfs --server xxx --dir /export/d0/kickstart/sl60/x86_64/ logging --host=xxx --level=debug skipx selinux --disabled firewall --disabled install keyboard us lang en_US.UTF-8

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-08-02 Thread Rich
FWIW, the systems I'm having this problem with are Zotac IONITX-A-U boards (http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-a-u-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html). Since, as I described, loading the forcedeth driver in SL61 makes /sbin/loader SIGSEGV, I would not be surprised if it

Re: Failures to kickstart with SL 6.1

2011-07-28 Thread Troy Dawson
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