Trouble in setting the network through kick start in rescue mode boot for centos-5.1
Michael DeHaan
mdehaan at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 14:48:53 UTC 2008
Priya Ainapur wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am trying to write a kick start file for booting the centos-5.1 in
> rescue mode.
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> The command I used to build the iso image is:
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> mkisofs -o CentOS-rescue.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
> isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -q
> -R -J -v -T .
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> My kick start file looks as shown below:
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> # Kickstart file
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> # Make it install in text mode
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> text
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> # Full install of OS instead of upgrade
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> install
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> # Use cdrom for install
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> cdrom
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> lang en_US.UTF-8
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> keyboard us
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> #
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> network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --onboot=on --ip 192.168.1.2
> --netmask 255.255.255.0 --nameserver 172.16.1.3,172.16.1.4 --gateway
> 192.168.1.1
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> #### END
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> Even though I gave the network settings configuration in the kick
> start file, the anaconda installer pops up the network settings
> confirmation window when I boot from the CD.
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> Please help me in solving this.
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> Thanks in advance
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> Priya
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My first throught is that your ISO is not set up to indicate usage of
the kickstart, and the kickstart is not present on the ISO.
--Michael
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