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 RedHat > Enterprise 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 > > ==================================================================== > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050513/1f37d440/attachment-0005.sig>