Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD

[John Oliver <joliver john-oliver net>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:18:48PM -0700, John Oliver wrote:
> I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my kickstart script
> to perform an unattended install.
> 
> My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine. However, it quickly
> says:
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and press OK to
> retry.
> 
> Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say "You didn't copy the
> .discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are identical to a working
> image:
> 
> 1177148299.639333
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5
> RedHat/base
> RedHat/RPMS
> RedHat/pixmaps
> 
> Switching to vt3 shows:
> 
> * starting to STEP_URL
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> 
> 
> vt4 shows:
> 
> <7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
> <3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc.
> <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.


Nobody has any idea what's going on here?

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