Kickstarting IBM servers

[John Summerfield]

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

I did a manual install of Tikanga-clone. There is no keymap statement in 
the ks anaconda produced.

Try an interactive install, it will ask about your mistakes.

Here's the relevant part of my ks file:
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

install
url --url http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --startxonboot
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
rootpw youwish
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
timezone Australia/Perth
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda,sda --append="rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work



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John

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