[Spacewalk-list] Bare Metal boot can't find stage2.img

[James Garratt]

I've had this same issue. I haven't had time to investigate the root cause
but the problem seems to be that the url in the kickstart script
is lower-case but the actual url has upper-case characters. Check your
distro label and change the case of the url to match .e.g
/dist/CentOS5.2_i386

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:54 PM, John McNulty <johnmcn1 at googlemail.com>wrote:

>
> We're trying to do a bare metal install of a system but experiencing a
> problem when the boot tries to read the stage2.img file over http.
>
> The iso of the CentOS 5.2 distribution DVD is loop back mounted to
> /mnt/CentOS5_i386 and this is the tree path for its distribution channel.
> The Kickstart profile is all set up, and I've used "cobbler buildiso" to
> create a bootable ISO to burn a CD from.  It boots from the CD and presents
> the list of profiles.  I select the profile I want and off it goes.  That is
> until it tries to transfer over the stage2.img file.  Looking at the console
> log on <Alt>-F3 it resolves the hostname ok and then runs through a list of
> image files and locations looking for one it can use.  Eventually it gives
> up.
>
> I tried browsing to the URL it's looking at:
> http://bhypdev.ydh.yha.com/ks/dist/centos5.2_i386/images/stage2.img but
> what I get instead is a "Page not found" screen from Spacewalk:
>
> "The page you requested, /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do, was not found"
>
> I've repeated this using a standard CentOS 5.2 boot CD and specifying the
> Kickstart URL at the boot prompt but that also takes me to the same point.
> I've double checked the network by using the IP address instead of the FQDN
> and then examined the contents of <Alt-F3> and it resolves the IP address to
> the name, so I'm pretty sure it's a config issue on the Spacewalk server.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> John
>
>
>
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