Redhat ES2.1 and Poweredge 1750 Perc 4/Di

[Martin Rheumer]

Gday again,

Has anybody actually achieved a kickstart with Enterprise 2.0 Redhat,
and a cdrom install ( ks=cdrom ) and would like to comment on the
isolinux.cfg they created or the line they typed at the boot: prompt ?
My install keeps complaining about cant find ks.cfg in the /tmp
directory ?

Thanks again
Martin





At 10:55 AM 6/3/2004, Martin Rheumer wrote:
>List..
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>Have changed the lines in isolinux.cfg
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>default ks
>prompt 1
>timeout 600
>display boot.msg
>F1 boot.msg
>F2 general.msg
>F3 expert.msg
>F4 param.msg
>F5 rescue.msg
>label linux
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168 vga=788
>label text
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img lang= text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168
>label expert
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append expert initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168
>label ks
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append expert noprobe ks=cdrom initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount
>ramdisk_size=7168
>label nofb
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount nofb ramdisk_size=7168
>label lowres
>  kernel vmlinuz
>  append initrd=initrd.img lang= lowres devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=7168
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>So that the ks config now has expert noprobe in them.
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>And then added the device lines to the ks.cfg
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>install
>lang en_US
>langsupport --default en_AU en_AU en_US
>keyboard us
>mouse none --device null
>skipx
>network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
>text
>rootpw --iscrypted $1$16ýµHôËO$lTPsWNVVICEM4bM.NOHY31
>firewall --disabled
>authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
>timezone Australia/Sydney
>device net tg3
>device scsi megaraid2
>bootloader
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>It now prompts me at the boot: menu, I press enter, then for a driver disk, 
>I say no, then the language and keyboard and finally says 
>the only choice to install is from cd.
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>I think I have done something wrong. 
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>Anymore ideas ?
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>Martin
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>Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 08:23:34
>To: martinr at hotkey.net.au
>Subject: Re: Redhat ES2.1 and Poweredge 1750 Perc 4/Di
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>On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:01:31PM +0000, Martin Rheumer wrote:
>> 
>> Peeps,
>> 
>> Have been wanting to rebuild my kickstart routine on
>> the Dell 1750 and Perc 4/Di controllers which I 
>> thought was going to be fixed with Redhat ES2.1
>> and Update 4.. But alas it works fine with drivers
>> for the Network Card the Broadcom is now supported
>> but the Megaraid controller fails to install and run
>> and so the machine cannot install via kickstart.
>
>You need to do an 'expert noprobe' install and specify "device scsi
>megaraid2", "device net tg3" in your kickstart.  That'll force it to
>use megaraid2 and tg3, which is what you want.
>