Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb drivers for kickstart installations?
I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems.
What am I missing with CentOS 5? Thanks for any tips.
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Jiann-Ming Su schrieb am 19.06.2007 01:33:
Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb drivers for kickstart installations?
I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems.
What am I missing with CentOS 5? Thanks for any tips.
I'm not sure, but can it be that your USB-Stick is now sdc1, because CentOS5 uses the new libata which uses the SCSI-stack, so hda is now sda and so on.
Greets René
On 6/19/07, René Standfest centos@standfest.net wrote:
I'm not sure, but can it be that your USB-Stick is now sdc1, because CentOS5 uses the new libata which uses the SCSI-stack, so hda is now sda and so on.
No, I just checked. I also ended up doing a non-kickstart install just to see what the loaded OS would think the USB is. And, after reboot, the CentOS 5 system saw the USB as sdb1. So, there's something about the install kernel that's not loading the usb drivers correctly.
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
Is anybody else having problems with CentOS 5 not loading the usb drivers for kickstart installations?
I'm passing "linux ks=hd:sdb1:/ks.cfg," but I get a message saying it can't find the ks.cfg file and I should enter another path. I use the exact same boot options with CentOS 4 without any problems.
What am I missing with CentOS 5? Thanks for any tips.
Hi Jiann-Ming,
I did a RHEL5 installation recently with a ks file. Upon receiving the 'can't get the ks file' message I removed & then reinserted the usb drive and this caused it to be re-detected properly.
At this time it may also help to switch to a different screen (ALT+CTRL+F[1..6]) and see the device under which it is recognised i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 etc
Yiorgos
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