On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 11:01 -0700, Ken Godee wrote:
What's the best way around "firstboot" ?
"firstboot" hung my machine and had to blown it up to get past it.
If you bypass firstboot, what other config settings is one missing?
I found the following info....
==================================================================== # Booting without Internet Connection / Stuck on RedHat Registration during First Bootup
This problem is caused by a package called firstboot. This package runs during the first boot of the machine to do some additional configurations that require your input. While most of these configuration tasks do not require a network connection, the Registration section does. The following steps will turn off firstboot:
1. Reboot your machine 2. When the grub screen displays, hightlight the line to boot RedHatEnterprise and type "e" 3. Next Hightlight the line that starts with kernel type "e" 4. Add " -s" to the end of the line and press <Enter> key. 5. Type "b" 6. Once the machine finishes booting you should have a root shell prompt that looks like sh-2.05# 7. At the shell prompt, type: chkconfig --del firstboot 8. Finally, type shutdown -r now which will reboot your machine
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While at the console prompt should one also just uninstall the rhn-applet rpm as well?
Maybe I missed some notes somewhere on this or just shouldn't worry about it and just bomb around it??????
I also noticed right after installing and logging in level 5 that it seemed that after choosing to log out, that it wouldn't log out. There appeared to be the rhn-applet running in the background holding things up.
Maybe I'm just hallucinating, I've installed 3.x several times now and don't remember running into this, or have forgotten.
I have never had an issue with firstboot
But, to make it not run ... on the first bootup press "a" to append something to the kernel line
then just enter 3
after you boot to the console, turn off first boot at /etc/sysconfig/firstboot ... and do
chkconfig firstboot off