<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I changed the DVD content however I had checksum implanted on the new iso before burning the DVD. I used implantisomd5 for this. Wouldn't that take care of iso checksum?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I also don't see shell or debug consoles when I press Alt-F2/3/4. This will aid me in troubleshooting if somehow I can see the details of what is going on during the installation.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I tried booting into rescue mode as well however I don't see any relevant logs from the previous installation attempt. I certainly can use some pointers here.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Thank you so much!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Moray Henderson <Moray.Henderson@ict-software.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Megha Agrawal' <megha_dtel@yahoo.com>; 'Discussion list about Kickstart' <kickstart-list@redhat.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:46 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: installation halts at two different points<br> </font> </div> <br> <div id="yiv377497751"><style></style><div><div class="yiv377497751WordSection1"><div style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: currentColor currentColor currentColor blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;' lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;' lang="EN-US"> Megha Agrawal [mailto:megha_dtel@yahoo.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 29 August 2012 09:25<br><br></span><span style="color: black;"></span></div></div></div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I am using kickstart to automate CentOS 5.5 installation. I have successfully burnt an iso and installed using this. Next I added a few more packages to this iso and this time when I try installing, it went on smoothly until in the end where it got stuck saying "installing boot loader". Nothing happened afterwards.</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">I ejected the DVD, put it back and then tried once again - this time installer halts in the very beginning at "Running Anaconda the CentOS system installer .. please wait.. ".</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Subsequent attempts keep halting in the beginning at "Running Anaconda the CentOS system installer .. please wait.. ".</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">What could have been going wrong? I have only added a few packages/rpms this time.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>That’s quite an old CentOS you’re using – the supported one is 5.8. </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>One possibility is a corrupt DVD. Now that you’ve changed the contents of the DVD the built-in iso checksum won’t work, but you could generate checksums of every file in your source directory and compare them with checksums read from the DVD.</span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Alt-F2, -F3 and -F4 switch you to a shell and debug consoles. Alt-F1 gives the install console again. ps at the shell prompt can show what’s going on in the installer, and the debug consoles may contain useful error messages.</span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Moray.</span></div><div class="yiv377497751MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">“To err is human; to purr, feline.”</span></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>