Kickstarting an RX4640 Itanium

[Matt P]

Worked like a Champ! Thanks Bryan. Looks like my problem was not
having the "--size=" included in the /boot/efi line.

I knew it had to be something fairly simply, since I wasn't able to
find anyone on the net that was having much trouble at all
Kickstarting Itanium hardware.

Thanks again!

On 3/28/07, Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell at hp.com> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Here's a kickstart script that I just tested with a network kickstart
> and it worked fine on an rx2660.
>
> Bryan
>
> Matt P wrote:
> > Yes, you're correct, I've got Itatium on the brain, there are only 2
> > internal drives. I'm in the process of building out 70+ machine which
> > are a mix of Itanium (RX4640) and x86 (DL class). The x86 machines
> > have 4 HDDs, my mistake.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the Module gets loaded. I didn't use lsmod but fdisk
> > does see the disk and the partitions that HP SmartStart builds which
> > includes efi.... I'll give that "device scsi cciss" a shot. the worst
> > part about testing this is I've got to burn a new DVD each time I make
> > a change to the config. Then sneaker net it over to the customer site,
> > etc, etc... It's a royal pain.
> >
> >
> > On 3/28/07, Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell at hp.com> wrote:
> >> Matt,
> >>
> >> I work in HP's Open Source and Linux Organization and I've done multiple
> >> kickstart installs on Itanium hardware and everything looks right to me.
> >>   It sounds like the cciss driver isn't being loaded during your
> >> kickstart install for some reason.  Can you switch to the shell (Alt-F2)
> >> and run lsmod (or 'cat /proc/modules') and see if the cciss driver is
> >> loaded when you receive that message?
> >>
> >> You can also try adding the following line to the top of your kickstart
> >> script to make sure the cciss driver is loaded:
> >>
> >> device scsi cciss
> >>
> >> BTW, how did you manage to fit four internal drives in an rx4640?
> >> There's only room for two.
> >>
> >> Bryan
>
> install
> nfs --server=test.test --dir=/dist/redhat/rhel4/as/U3/ia64
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> rootpw --iscrypted XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> firewall --disabled
> selinux --disabled
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> timezone --utc America/Denver
> bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=ttyS0"
> clearpart --all --initlabel=gpt
> part /boot/efi --fstype vfat --size=100 --ondisk=cciss/c1d0
> part swap --fstype swap --size=2048 --ondisk=cciss/c1d0
> part / --fstype ext3 --size=256 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c1d0
>
> %packages
> e2fsprogs
> kernel
> dosfstools
> elilo
>
> %post
>
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