Location of installation media no longer /tmp/cdrom?

[John Summerfield]

Pat wrote:
> --- kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>>> From: Nicholas Byrne <nicholas.byrne at quadriga.com>
>> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>> <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:04:07 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Location of installation media no
>> longer /tmp/cdrom?
>>
>> see this thread -
>>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2007-May/msg00007.html.
>> It's a bug, the cdrom drive is being unmounted to
>> early in the ks
>> process, it manifests itself most commonly on "eject
>> only" mechanism
>> type drives because the mount request normally
>> retracts the draw on
>> capable devices which is also probably why it wasn't
>> picked up during
>> testing.
>> To fix manually, open up stage2.img and change
>> dispatch.py, swapping the
>> lines:
>>
>> ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
>> ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
>>
>> for
>>
>> ("dopostaction", doPostAction, ),
>> ("methodcomplete", doMethodComplete, ),
>>
> 
> Thanks for the tip, I tried editing the stage2.img and
> creating a new install CD, however I received the
> following error during the install (from my notes)
> with that CD:
> 
> 
> No CentOS CD was found which matches your boot media.
> Please insert the CentOS CD and press OK to retry.

Perhaps you should grep the source tree to see where that message comes 
from, it seems well within your capabilities.

Also, the commandline for mkisofs is important. I'm wondering whether 
there is some little hidden file or directory you missed.




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