RE: NFS not mountable when kickstarting RHEL5x32 via Fedora 7

["Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf yahoo com>]

Just to let everyone know, I've solved the problem.

 

In my ks.cfg file, it helps if you put the ip address of the system you are building, vice

that of your NFS server.  Once I fixed that little detail, RHEL5 built nicely.

 

The next problem is that the virtual machine wouldn't fully boot.  It stays at the grub

menu wanting booting instructions.  I've checked the kind of VM I built and its hard

disk drive and did it with SCSI.  Does RHEL5 have any issues with SCSI?

 

The manually built system that worked for me and is fully functional was built with

IDE drives.  I wonder what the difference is?

R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
 Senior IA Engineer
 ProSync Technology Group, LLC
 
        www.prosync.com

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From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Joe_Wulf
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 01:12
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: NFS not mountable when kickstarting RHEL5x32 via Fedora 7

I have a weird problem.

I have Fedora 7 built up as my DNS, tftp, DHCP and kickstart server.

I can successfully build RHEL AS4u5.

I've now tried RHEL5.... it boots up initially, gets to the anaconda

screen and freezes, never to go any further.

When checking the box to be built (actually a VM), console 4 gives

continuous errors regarding unable to NFS mount the kickstart source.

 

HALP.

 

This is weird, as I have a manually built VM with RHEL 5, full system

install, and it can moments later successfully mount the same

location as the KS'd VM is attempting.

R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
 Senior IA Engineer
 ProSync Technology Group, LLC
 
        www.prosync.com