Issues with kickstarting RHEL3 with Dell PE 1950

Hi,

Our Kickstart has been working fine with RHEL4 and EL4…no problems.

But today I added a RHEL3 menu and it’s corresponding ks.cfg file. ; This is to test our legacy RHEL3 servers which are difficult to get rid of at this time. ; I could pxe boot and I get the menu. ; I choose the correct option (17) and it loads up the appropriate vmlinuz and initrd images, then loads up anaconda and instead of getting the network it shows me the Language menu. ; I have about 16 other options for RHEL4 and EL4 and they all work fine. ; I have been troubleshooting this for almost 3 hours now and no luck. ; Suggestions would be appreciated.

My take on this is that with RHEL4 it takes all the drivers for the PE1950, for RHEL3 I don’t think it contains all the drivers so it just does not load them with anaconda.  Can anyone clarify this?

 

 

Here is my setup:

 

My /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default file: ; Label 16 works but Label 17 does not.

 

label 16

  kernel RHELAS32_U6/vmlinuz

  append nofb ks=http://171.67.39.130/RHELAS32_U6/RedHat/ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg initrd=RHELAS32_U6/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS0,9600 ipappend 1

 

label 17

  kernel RHEL3/vmlinuz

  append nofb ks=http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3/RedHat/ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg initrd=RHEL3/initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000 lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216 ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS0,9600 ipappend 1

 

 

My /tftpboot/linux-install/msgs/boot.msg file (menu):

 

16.  Base (X Window) ASIA Install for Tripwire Server

17.  Base (X Window) RHEL3

 

 

My /var/www/html/RHEL3/RedHat/ ks_el32_u4_asia-muksyed.cfg file (ks.cfg equivalent).  I could http to:  http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3

 

#System  language

lang en_US

 

#Language modules to install

langsupport en_US

 

#System keyboard

keyboard us

 

#System mouse

mouse

 

#Sytem timezone

timezone America/Los_Angeles

 

#Root password

rootpw welcome

 

#Reboot after installation

reboot

 

#Install OS instead of upgrade

install

 

#Use Web installation

url --url http://171.67.39.130/RHEL3

 

#System bootloader configuration

bootloader --location=mbr

 

#Clear the Master Boot Record

zerombr yes

 

#Partition clearing information

clearpart --all --initlabel

 

#Disk partitioning information

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary

part / --fstype ext3 --size 6000 --asprimary

part swap --recommended --asprimary

part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 2000

part /opt --fstype ext3 --size 3000 --grow

 

#System authorization infomation

auth  --useshadow  --enablemd5

 

#Network information

network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0

 

#Firewall configuration

firewall --disabled

 

#SELinux configuration

selinux --disabled

 

#Do not configure XWindows

skipx

 

#Package install information

%packages --resolvedeps

base-x

# OEM Agent and Oracle Client Requirements:

binutils

compat-db

compat-libstdc++-296

libaio

glibc

glibc-common

gcc

gcc-c++

make

gnome-libs

libstdc++

libstdc++-devel

pdksh

xscreensaver

setarch

control-center

# Other RPMs:

ntp

screen

cvs

emacs

lynx

strace

sysstat

 

%pre

 

%post