Issue with RHEL 5 Kickstart hanging

[Andrew Deagman]

I have setup a kickstart server for RHEL 5. The install starts (pxeboot)
properly, get¹s an ip from dhcp, finds the ks.cfg (http) file and starts to
load modules. It looks like modules load and then runs the anaconda script,
as soon as that runs it just hangs. From the debug screen I have the
following:

INFO: Load module set done
INFO: Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda
INFO: Using only Install Class Red Hat Enterprise Linux
INFO: Using only Install Class Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Then it will proceed to hang never timing out.

I have tried installing directly from cd/dvd and that works fine. I have
also tried cutting down the ks.cfg to a known working version and I get the
same results. I can see the files being pulled from my http logs, but there
are no errors... The install media is also located without any issues..  Any
ideas as to what is going wrong?

Thanks
Andrew

Copy of ks.cfg:

#Kickstart file for RedHat ES 5 x64 rhel5x64-ks.cfg

# Install from http url
install 

# Location of the install media
url --url http://10.10.10.1/kickstart/media/x64/

# Perform a text based install
text

# Set up Locale
lang en_US

# Keyboard Type
keymap us

# auto mouse
mouse

# Configure eth0 (should be dhcp)
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp


# Configure eth1
#network --device eth1 --onboot no --bootproto dhcp

# Set the root password
rootpw --iscrypted <password removed>

# Disable the firewall
firewall --disabled

# Use shadow passwords and md5
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

# Enable SELinux set in permissive mode (logging only)
selinux --permissive

# Set the time zone
timezone --utc America/New_York

# Disbale firstboot screen
firstboot --disabled

# Do not set and installation key
key --skip

# Set the bootloader
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda

# Ignore all drives except sda
ingnoredisk --drives=sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf

# Set the partition tables

# Clear the partition table first
clearpart --drives=sda --all --initlabel

# Partition sda
part /boot    --fstype ext2     --size=128     --asprimary
part swap             --size=16384     --asprimary
part /         --fstype ext3     --size=6144     --asprimary
part /var    --fstype ext3    --size=4096
part /tmp     --fstype ext3     --size=8192
part /opt    --fstype ext3    --size=100    --grow

# Packages to install
%packages 
@base
@legacy-software-support
@development-libs
- at base-x
- at dialup
- at admin-tools
ntp
ruby
screen
subversion
mysql-connector-odbc
unixODBC
unixODBC-devel
expat-devel
gnutls-utils
gnutls-devel
curl-devel
libtool-ltdl-devel
libtool
MySQL-python
rcs
rpm-build
strace
strace64
ltrace
expect
pfmon
sysstat
oprofile
pstack
elfutils
gdb



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