RHEL5 Ejecting CD Before %post

Goetz Rieger grieger at oss.co.nz
Thu Apr 12 23:48:19 UTC 2007


Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Goetz Rieger wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm building a completely CD/DVD based RHEL5 kickstart install. I've 
>> to integrate additional stuff like JBoss and Raid utilities. I have 
>> tried the same way I've done it a lot of times with RHEL4 by mounting 
>> and accessing the CD/DVD in the %post stage.
>>
>> Apart from the /tmp/cdrom device file disappearing after the packages 
>> are installed (does make mounting the CD not easier) it looks like 
>> the CD is ejected before the post scripts are run. To verify I did a:
>>
>> %post
>> echo "Sleeping in %post..." > /tmp/anaconda_dbg.log
>> sleep 180
>> %post --nochroot
>> echo "Sleeping in %post --nochroot..." >> 
>> /mnt/sysimage/tmp/anaconda_dbg.log
>> sleep 180
>>
>> The CD is clearly ejected before %post is done. So remounting to get 
>> to my custom files is out of question. Am I overlooking something 
>> obvious or is there a way to prevent this behaviour?
>
> eject -t /dev/device will retract an open motorized cdrom tray.
It's a recent IBM xSeries which, like most servers I've worked on in the 
last years, comes with a laptop-style cdrom. So no option...

Goetz




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