Hello,

Our environment: CentOS 5.2 (updated over time with "yum update", current "yum update" lists about 7 packages out of date), x86_64. Running Xen, building Xen DomU's with kickstart.

We are trying to debug the %post part of the kickstart process for DomU and are hitting difficulties in accessing the output.

For a start, the "cmdline" directive in the kickstart seems to be ignored and it stays in "text" (ncurses) mode.

Here is the kickstart file we use:

install url --url http://a.b.c.d/centos/5.2/os/x86_64 logging --level=debug lang en_US.UTF-8 network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip=a.b.c.e --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=a.b.c.f --nameserver=a.b.c.g --hostname domu-hostname rootpw --iscrypted $1$password authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 selinux --disabled timezone --utc Australia/Sydney bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0" poweroff cmdline # Partitioning zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=xvda part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda volgroup xxx --pesize=32768 pv.2 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=xxx --size=1024 --grow logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=xxx --size=256 --grow --maxsize=512 %packages --nobase wget %post set -x echo hello world

Can anyone point what are we missing?

Googl'ing around just keeps coming up with pages saying that this should work (e.g. "Running anaconda in real text-mode" and "Logging %pre and %post" in http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/KickStart) but the problem so far still remains that Anaconda uses ncurses, not "cmdline".

Thanks,

--Amos