[Spacewalk-list] asknetwork gets ignored

[Philipp Wehling]

Hello, 

thanks! That explains everything. 

Now kickstarting works like a charm. 

Any ideas how to use kickstarting without dhcp more "general". I know, entering ip= gateway= netmask= and dns= isnt that hard, but Im just curious how you use it. And we have some DAUs here ... 



kind regards, 
Philipp 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jan Dobes" <jdobes at redhat.com> 
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com 
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 6:01:39 PM 
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] asknetwork gets ignored 

On 6.11.2015 12:17 Philipp Wehling wrote: 
> Hello, 
> 
> Im experimenting with kickstarting Linux machines, in my case 
> ScientificLinux7. 
> 
> We dont use DHCP for our servernetwork, so I created an iso with 
> 
> 
> # cobbler sync 
> # cobbler buildiso 
> 
> My kickstart profile looks pretty normal, nothing special. Because there 
> is no dhcp in the network, I tried to ask me for network configuration 
> with these options: 
> 
> - "asknetwork" in Kernel Options 
> - "network: --device=ens160 --bootproto=query" in Advanced Settings 
> 
> But when I mount the iso and start installation, journalctl looks like this: 
> 
> 
> kernel: vmxnet3 0000:03:00.0 ens160: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps 
> dracut-initqueue: Starting dhcp for interface ens160 
> ... 
> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ens160 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 
> dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. 
> dracut-initqueue: dhcp failed 
> dracut-initqueue: RTNETLINK answers: File exists 
> dracut-initqueue: Warning: Could not boot 
> dracut-initqueue: Warning: /dev/root does not exist 
> ... 
> 
> 
> In my opinion, this doesnt have to happen. 
> 
> Please correct me if Im wrong. 
> 
> 
> kind regards, 
> Philipp 
> 

Hello, 

I think it's expected. 

>From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation guide: [1] 

20.1.1. Deprecated and Removed Boot Options 

askmethod, asknetwork 

"The installation program's initramfs is now completely non-interactive, 
which means that these options are not available anymore. Instead, use 
the inst.repo= to specify the installation method and ip= to configure 
network settings." 

[1] 
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/chap-anaconda-boot-options.html 

Regards, 
-- 
Jan Dobes 
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat 

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