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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I reviewed the Red Hat documentation for performing a standard installation, and in there it explained about needing an 'inst.repo=' assignment on both the 'append' line for BIOS boots, and on the 'linuxefi' line for UEFI boots. That suddenly made things a whole lot better.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div>Thanks for those who looked at this for me and with me.... I greatly appreciated your help.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Joe<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 01:48:28 PM EDT, Joe Wulf <joe_wulf@yahoo.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844"><div><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydpa1014409yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315"><div><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315ydpcba931b6yqt7565588736" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315ydpcba931b6yqtfd99914"><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">The RHEL84 custom boot does see/find/use the ks.cfg, as the %pre section runs successfully, and generates the partition table file in /tmp. This is the exact same code (for %pre, anyway) I've used in recent RHEL7.x ISO builds without problems. I've followed the Red Hat RHEL 8 docs for Anaconda, as well as for Kickstart, and Performing An Advanced RHEL Installation.<br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">I am just blown away by how hard it is to simply fully
boot through to the end of the ks.cfg. I had none of these
issues/problems with RHEL5.x, 6.x and 7.x.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">I've carefully looked over both repo lines in ks.cfg and verified the paths are correct.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">I've provided the relevant lines from isolinux.cfg and grub.cfg (which are simple and straightforward).</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">Boots of either firmware present the same stubborn error state.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">I've wondered if my building a RHEL84 ISO on a Centos7 VM could be the issue (how to know for sure?); not that it should matter though.<div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqt3624350171" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqtfd09072"><br clear="none"></div></font></div><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqt3624350171" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqtfd55449"><div dir="ltr"><font size="5"><br clear="none"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="5">-Joe</font><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqt3624350171" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844yqtfd49528"><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315yqt9822802929" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315yqt51084"><div class="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315ydpcba931b6yahoo_quoted" id="ydp802d9bffyiv9755561844ydp9ed9997dyiv4682627315ydpcba931b6yahoo_quoted_1396677832"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
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