RHEL5.2, kickstart, USB, "OPCODE" error after reboot

[Kennedy, Cameron]

Hi all, 

Just starting to play around with RHEL5.2 servers in our environment and
am coming up with a strange kickstart issue. I have narrowed it down to
the following scenario: 

Build a HP 385 server, using a RHEL5.2 DVD cut from a downloaded ISO,
and the kickstart file located on a USB stick. After the initial build,
the server reboots, the DVD and USB stick are manually removed and right
where the GRUB screen should be displayed, I get a screen that looks
like a kernel panic screen, though starts with the line "Illegal OPCODE"
and then a bunch of hex output. 

If I build the server without the USB stick but using the same kickstart
file (copied to the DVD) it works fine. 

 

Thinking that the USB stick (/dev/sda) was being incorporated into the
build process (LVM), I added the line: 

"ignoredisk --drives=sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf"  to the kickstart script.
This did not fix the issue. 

I then added the line: 

"part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=200 --ondrive=cciss/c0d0"  forcing
/boot to be created on the internal raid disk, which also failed the fix
the issue. I did watch the <F4> screen during the last build process and
I know that /boot is created on /dev/cciss/c0d0 (HP raid) and the
partition information on the USB stick appears to be unchanged (i.e. not
formatted). So I am at a loss as to what else I could check. I do know
the exact same kickstart script, server, usb stick combination builds a
RHEL4.6 server without any problems. Has anyone else seen this or have
any ideas?

 

Thanks.  

 

 



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