Hello Astronauts,<br>We are using Spacewalk release 0.5. We are Kickstarting our machines from it. We have created a channel for Kickstarting our RHEL5.3 machines, called "rhel5.3_x86_64_clone".<br><br>When we try to Kickstart, it stops with the aforementioned "Unable to retrieve stage2.img" error. But if we move on without changing anything, it works. Details follow...<br>
<br>Details:<br>We create an iso file with our initrd.img and ks.cfg in it. We mount that and boot off of it. In there, we have specified<br><br>url --url <a href="http://10.52.151.21/ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone">http://10.52.151.21/ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone</a><br>
<br>Our Kickstart advances to the point where it says "Unable to retrieve <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img</a>". (notice the double slash, but I don't think it's a problem).<br>
<br>If I look at console 3, I can see things like<br><br>01:02:28 INFO : transferring <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/product.img">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/product.img</a> to a fd<br>
01:02:31 INFO : 12296768 kB are available<br>01:02:31 INFO : transferring <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img</a> to a fd<br>
01:02:34 INFO : transferring <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/stage2.img">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/disk1/images/stage2.img</a> to a fd<br><br>...and there it is stopped. So I go back to Screen 1, I hit OK, It takes me to the HTTP Setup screen. I don't change a thing. I notice that in the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server directory:" box, the path ends in "...dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone". Regardless, I hit "OK". Then I switch immediately to console 3 and take a screenshot.<br>
<br>It does a bunch of transfers again, starting with <br>00:54:53 INFO : trying to mount CD device scd0<br>... (then it tries to transfer images/updates.img "to a fd", disc1/images/updates.img, images/product.img, and disc1/images/product.img. The prefix to all of these is <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dis/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dis/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/</a> . Finally, we get to:)<br>
00:54:54 INFO : 12296768 kB are available<br>00:54:54 INFO : transferring <a href="http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img">http://10.52.151.21//ks/dist/rhel5.3_x86_64_clone/images/stage2.img</a> to a fd<br>
<br>...and the Kickstart completes successfully.<br clear="all"><br>Notice that that URL is the same as the one above, at 01:02:31. I don't know why it complained up above.<br><br>Now we have a 4-port NIC installed in our machine, and this has made Linux think that our motherboard NIC is at "eth4", but on the network line in our ks.cfg we specify "--device=eth4", and regardless the point that bugs me is I don't change anything but I still need to do that manual step. How annoying.<br>
<br>Any ideas? Thanks.<br>-- <br>-Mike Schwager<br>