How to get a shell when kickstart install fails/hangs

Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA) balaji.parthasarathy at hp.com
Mon Jun 18 22:13:17 UTC 2012


Thank you Kevin and Dewey. Alt-F2 worked. I had to do another little bit of figuring out to send that command through Proliant’s iLO interface by configuring hotkeys.

Balaji

From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dewey Coffman
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Subject: RE: How to get a shell when kickstart install fails/hangs

You need to be installing in ‘text’ mode to make that work.

From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]<mailto:[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com]> On Behalf Of Kevin Spargur
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Subject: Re: How to get a shell when kickstart install fails/hangs

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<mailto: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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