Kickstarting IBM servers

[Ed Brown]

I don't see 'keymap' listed as a kickstart option in the docs at:
<https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html>

Have you already tried 'keyboard uk', without 'keymap'?

Also, 'text' and 'graphical' are mutually exclusive, use one or the 
other (or leave it out, since graphical is default).

-Ed



Vimal Kumar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a scenario in which its not able to do a kickstart on IBM 
> servers, the process halts at the keymap. Tried various alternatives in 
> the kickstart config; gb, uk, us; and also changed the keyboard and 
> language settings. The problem occurs on both x86 or x86_64 bit RHEL5. 
> The IBM Servers are mainly x345s and x346s. Tried Compaq KVMs, HP KVMs, 
> standard Dell PS2 keyboards and other non-brand keyboards... with a 
> mixture of US and UK keymaps. It's not possible to use the keyboard at 
> all during the kickstart process... it's just garbled characters and 
> renders it useless.
> 
> The ks.cfg is as follows :
> 
> -----------------------
> install
> nfs --server=X.X.X.X --dir=/kickstart/install-tree/rhel-5
> text
> lang en_US
> #langsupport --default=en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> keymap us
> graphical
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip X.X.X.X --netmask 
> 255.255.254.0 --nameserver X.X.X.X --hostname XY.com
> firewall --disabled
> selinux --disabled
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> firstboot --disabled
> timezone Europe/London
> bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet"
> clearpart --all
> part /boot --fstype "ext3" --size=100  --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part /     --fstype "ext3" --size=6144 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part swap                  --size=2048 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
> part /var  --fstype "ext3" --size=8192 --grow --ondisk=sda
> part /var/spool/exim/input --fstype "ext3" --size=65536 --grow --ondisk=sdb
> ------------------------
> 
> Any ideas why this is happening.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vimal Kumar
> 
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