Kickstart hang at "Installing Bootloader"

johnpaul johnpaulmp at amiindia.co.in
Fri Aug 13 05:36:58 UTC 2004


hi

    can you please try one more option by specifying the exact boot loader
as

    bootloader --useLilo
    before %pre section

Regards
John paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fales" <psfales at lucent.com>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Kickstart hang at "Installing Bootloader"


> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> It's not looping.   ps shows only anaconda running, and strace shows
> a select() waiting on stdin.   When you hit return on the main console,
> anaconda goes on with the rest of the install.
>
> This is an older Dell, 700MHz with just one ATA disk on hda and a CD drive
> on hdc.
>
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Peter Fales wrote:
> >
> > >On the second machine (Dell Optiplex GX110), it mostly works, but it
> > >consistently stalls at the "Installing Bootloader" screen.
> >
> > In the bash console (Alt+F2), you can run ps and friends to see whether
> > it's GRUB/LILO hanging, or anaconda, or ...
> >
> > What storage (ATA/SATA/SCSI) comes with that Optiplex? If it's SATA,
> > there might be some BIOS options which affect the kernel's interaction
> > with the hardware.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Phil
> >
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