How to get a shell when kickstart install fails/hangs

[Kevin Spargur]

Alt-F2 will get you to a prompt.

-Kevin





On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:39 PM, "Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA)" <balaji.parthasarathy at hp.com> wrote:

> I have been experimenting with some kickstart files to automate installs (it also includes Cobbler snippets). But I get failures about errors in kickstart files when Anaconda launches. I want to get a shell to troubleshoot the problem. How do I do that? Right now I have a screen that says:
>  
> The system will be rebooted when you press Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Alt+Del.
>  
> The message also says that the Anaconda version is 13.21.149. I’m trying to install RHEL 6.2 Server.
>  
> Thanks
> Balaji
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