[Nottingham] RH kickstart problems

[Robert Postill]

Graeme,
I have fiddled with stuff *like* this before (for custom RH hardware migrations) and the one thing I notice is that you haven't modded the linuxrc script.  If you've labeled your new boot device you shouldn't have to (but I have been forced to just set the thing by hand before now) but if you do create a device and don't label it (tunefs -L <label>) then you will have to change the label in linuxrc.

Hope that helps.
Robert.
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:42:51 +0000 (GMT)
Graeme Fowler <graeme at graemef.net> wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> Has anybody ever tried to customise a RH installer environment? I'm trying to
> do so at present for legacy support reasons, and am so close to the damned
> thing working but now have a real showstopper of a problem. Here's what I've 
> done:
> 
> 1. Unpacked the default initial ramdisk
> 2. Unpacked the modules contained therein
> 3. Replaced modules with those from a more recent BOOT kernel
> 4. Repacked modules
> 5. Repacked initrd
> 6. Unpacked cramfs "stage2" image
> 7. Replaced modules with those from step 3 above
> 8. Replaced 'busybox', the multi-purpose binary app with a newer version
> 9. Recreated the "stage2" cramfs image
> 10. Copied relevant files to the NFS server
> 
> ...I can now PXE boot a machine, give it the right target which then boots the 
> right kernel and downloads/unpacks the initrd and gets on with the install. If 
> zaps the disk, partitions it, creates filesystems on the partitions - all 
> successfully (so I know it's not module related).
> 
> It then fails with "not enough space is available on /" - checking this it 
> seems not to have mounted the filesystems at all, so tries to use the 
> loop-mounted cramfs system which has nowhere near enough space. It'd be 
> pointless installing here anyway, since it'll only disappear at next boot :)
> 
> If anyone has any advice (indeed, if you've come across this before!) I'd 
> appreciate it.
> 
> Ta
> 
> Graeme
> 
> 
> 
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