[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Issue - CentOS kickstarting

[John Holland]

  Thanks,

This gets it further along to where it hangs on running pre-install 
scripts. (There are no preinstall scripts). Where should I look to debug 
this?

On 10/20/2010 02:55 AM, Walther, Johannes wrote:
> Hi John again,
>
> I find a solution for me, I meen it is
> possible that you do, as test, the same!
> CentOS installtion works fine now!
>
> in other mailings i found:
>
> ===========================================
> Hi all,
>
>          After spending another day of debugging I think I found the problem.
>          There seems to be a bug in the kernel (2.6.18-194.el5) which was provided for pxe install on the CentOS 5.5 iso images. I could trigger it rproducilble via the following steps:
>
>             * boot it via pxe in rescue mode
>             * ensure you have a swap and a date (probably ext3) partition
>             * try to mount the swap partition ->   this fails
>             * try to mount the normal partition ->   system hangs ->   kernel panic
>
>          Can anybody confirm/disprove this?
>          @developers: Is there a way to change the kickstart pre script which tries to not mount a swap partition?
>
>          Regards,
>          Sascha Bendix
>
> Sascha,
>
> Can you try a solution real quick for me?
> edit  /var/lib/rhn/kickstart/snippets/keep_system_id
>
> and change:
>      DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
> to
> DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | grep -v "swap\|LVM\|Extended" |
> awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
>
> that should ensure that it doesn't try to mount any of those types of
> partitions (it seemed that even if it excluded swap but tried to mount
> LVM, it would fail).
> The above change seemed to work really well for me.
>
> -Justin Sherrill
> ============================================================
>
>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Johannes Walther [mailto:hannes at jw-b.de]
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010 03:57
>> An: John Holland
>> Cc: Walther, Johannes
>> Betreff: Spacewalk Issue - CentOS kickstarting
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Sory, for write you directly, but I cant send messages to the list....
>> I dont know why.
>>
>> I have had the same Problem like you wrote in your Mail to the List.
>> -->  [Spacewalk-list] trying to get CentOS 5.5 to kickstart
>>
>> In Spacewalk I have the channels: CentOS-5.5; Fedora-12;
>> Fedora-13; i386
>> + x86_64. All with child-channels update; epel; rhn-tools, different
>> names.
>>
>> All fedora  works fine, but boot CentOS, i386 + x86_64, stop
>> on the same
>> screen like yours. What can i do vor debug this. On the blue-screen
>> point the bash (F2) doesn't work.
>>
>> Cheers and thanks
>> Johannes
>>
>>