Problem with finding kickstart file from the cdrom

[Oguz Yilmaz]

I have tried in physical hardware and physical cdrom. The problem is the
same with physical machines.

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Oguz YILMAZ


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Oguz Yilmaz <oguzyilmazlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was using a kickstart distro with kernel 2.6.18. Recently I have decided
> to change this distro cd to use kernel 3.4.52. I have prepared all new rpm
> files and produced iso.
>
> I am testing the iso file on proxmox environment with qemu. With tha same
> guest vm the oldu distro succfully boots and find kickstart file and
> installs. With the new iso I have problems.
>
> "unable to find the kickstart file...."
> cdrom:/isolinux/ssd.cfg
>
> In tty3 I can follow:
> [    1.620980] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> [    1.621253] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 33554432 512-byte logical blocks: (17.1
> GB/16.0 GiB)
> [    1.621359] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [    1.621401] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
> enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [    1.628975] scsi 6:0:1:0: CD-ROM            QEMU     QEMU DVD-ROM
> 1.4. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> [    1.628978]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
> [    1.629546] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> [    1.630073] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
> [    1.634874] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/4x cd/rw xa/form2 tray
> [    1.636220] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
>
> When I add loglovel-debug in to anaconda boot cmdline I can see error log.
>
> ERROR: No CDROM devices found!
>
>
> I have also checked the previous iso file. It was correctly recognizing
> cdrom as hdb while problematic new kernel iso recognizes it as sr0 device.
>
> hdb: QEMU DVD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as ....
>
> got url from cdrom://hdb:/mnt/source
>
>
> If I write ks url as "hd:scd0:/isolinux/ssd.cfg" then anaconda mounts and
> reads the ks file.
>
>
> getting kickstart file from harddrive
>
> Loading ks from device scd0 on path /isolinux/ssd.cfg
>
> ...
>
> file copied to /tmp/ks.cfg
>
>
> However ks.cfg includes "install" and "cdrom" lines. Then it againg tries
> to find Cdrom and gives error.
>
>
> This problem occurs in stage1 and this stage does not enable tty2 debug
> shell and sshd options. So I have limited debug options.
>
>
> Anaconda version is 11.1.2.168 , kernel version 3.4.52.
>
>
> What do you suggest on the problem?
>
>
> Oguz
>
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