How to reboot in %post?

[whitivery]

Pablo Iranzo Gómez <Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com> wrote:

>Hi
>If you specify a 'reboot' in kickstart, that would make it work at the end of the kickstart process.... 
>

But I don't always want to do it.

>Doing it 'the way of pain', you can do:
>
>%post
>#Flush buffers
>sync;sync
>#Reboot 'now'
>echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Thank you very much, that's what I needed, works perfectly
(and abruptly)!

>
>Regards
>Pablo
>
>
>
>----- Mensaje original -----
>> De: "whitivery" <co55-sy1t at dea.spamcon.org>
>> Para: Kickstart-list at redhat.com
>> Enviados: Viernes, 1 de Julio 2011 9:12:09
>> Asunto: How to reboot in %post?
>> 
>> Usually I don't want to reboot a built unit - I want to see the
>> final %post results and scroll back to check it.
>> 
>> But under some conditions I would like to reboot.  However, just
>> doing "reboot" doesn't work in %post (nor does shutdown -r now),
>> complains about no /dev/initctl.  In the Alt-F2 console I was
>> able to reboot via "mkfifo -m666 /dev/initctl; reboot" but that
>> doesn't work in the real %post.  I thought about somehow trying
>> to stuff Ctrl-Alt-Del into the keyboard buffer but don't know how
>> to do that.
>> 
>> How can I cause a reboot in %post?  This is for CentOS 5.6 at the
>> moment; would also want it for 5.5, Fedora 14, and others.
>> 
>> 
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