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Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
United States		 2008-05-08 14:18:48 
I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my
kickstart script
to perform an unattended install.

My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine. However,
it quickly
says:

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your
CDROM
drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and
press OK to
retry.

Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say "You
didn't copy the
.discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are
identical to a working
image:

1177148299.639333
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
i386
1,2,3,4,5
RedHat/base
RedHat/RPMS
RedHat/pixmaps

Switching to vt3 shows:

* starting to STEP_URL
* trying to mount CD device hdc
* trying to mount CD device hdc


vt4 shows:

<7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
<3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
<6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc.
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.

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RE: Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
United States		 2008-05-08 14:36:57 
Take a look at Revisor:
http://revisor.fedora
unity.org/ 


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Subject: Kickstart install can't see DVD

I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my
kickstart script
to perform an unattended install.

My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine. However,
it quickly
says:

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of your
CDROM
drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD and
press OK to
retry.

Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say "You
didn't copy the
.discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are
identical to a working
image:

1177148299.639333
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
i386
1,2,3,4,5
RedHat/base
RedHat/RPMS
RedHat/pixmaps

Switching to vt3 shows:

* starting to STEP_URL
* trying to mount CD device hdc
* trying to mount CD device hdc


vt4 shows:

<7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
<3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
<6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc.
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.

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Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
Norway		 2008-05-08 14:41:04 
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:18 -0700, John Oliver wrote:
> I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my
kickstart script
> to perform an unattended install.
> 

Have a look at http://www.harkness.co.uk/other/RHEL4_custom_dvd.html .


This method worked for me. 

- Jarle Bjørgeengen



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Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
United States		 2008-05-08 15:13:42 
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:41:04PM +0200, Jarle Bjørgeengen
wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:18 -0700, John Oliver wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5
and my kickstart script
> > to perform an unattended install.
> > 
> 
> Have a look at http://www.harkness.co.uk/other/RHEL4_custom_dvd.html .

> 
> This method worked for me. 

Thanks, but A) that's pretty much what I did (except I
started with a
DVD and not a group of CDs), and B) it doesn't say anything
about the
error I'm seeing.

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Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
United States		 2008-05-09 13:17:16 
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:18:48PM -0700, John Oliver
wrote:
> I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my
kickstart script
> to perform an unattended install.
> 
> My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine.
However, it quickly
> says:
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of
your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD
and press OK to
> retry.
> 
> Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say
"You didn't copy the
> .discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are
identical to a working
> image:
> 
> 1177148299.639333
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5
> RedHat/base
> RedHat/RPMS
> RedHat/pixmaps
> 
> Switching to vt3 shows:
> 
> * starting to STEP_URL
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> 
> 
> vt4 shows:
> 
> <7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
> <3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev
hdc.
> <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.


Nobody has any idea what's going on here?

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Re: Kickstart install can't see DVD
country flaguser name
United States		 2008-05-09 15:50:34 
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:18:48PM -0700, John Oliver
wrote:
> I'm trying to create a bootable DVD with RHEL4u5 and my
kickstart script
> to perform an unattended install.
> 
> My image boots and sees the ks.cfg file just fine.
However, it quickly
> says:
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD was not found in any of
your CDROM
> drives. Please insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD
and press OK to
> retry.
> 
> Googling gives me a bunch of responses that say
"You didn't copy the
> .discinfo file". But I did! And it's contents are
identical to a working
> image:
> 
> 1177148299.639333
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> i386
> 1,2,3,4,5
> RedHat/base
> RedHat/RPMS
> RedHat/pixmaps
> 
> Switching to vt3 shows:
> 
> * starting to STEP_URL
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> * trying to mount CD device hdc
> 
> 
> vt4 shows:
> 
> <7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
> <3>FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> <6>VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev
hdc.
> <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev hdc.


The solution was in the way my ISO was being built.

http://www.harkness.co.uk/other/RHEL4_custom_dvd.html
has the answer:

$ mkisofs -r -T -J -V "Name of CD" -b
isolinux/isolinux.bin -c
isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4
-boot-info-table -o
../test.iso .

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