CentOS - Aug 2009 - disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation

Hi All,

I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart 
installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for 
interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2.  I've looked in the /etc 
directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2 
files.  Am I missing something grossly obvious here?

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James A. Peltier
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The point of the HPC scheduler is to
keep everyone equally unhappy.

Those terminals are started in the inittab file.  Looks for the
"mingetty" lines.


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:58 PM, James A. Peltier<jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart
> installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for
> interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2. ?I've looked in the /etc
> directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2
> files. ?Am I missing something grossly obvious here?
>
> --
> James A. Peltier
> Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director

James A. Peltier wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart 
> installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that allow for 
> interactive input such as CTRL+ALT+F2.  I've looked in the /etc 
> directories for the pxeboot initrd as well as the stage2 and minstg2 
> files.  Am I missing something grossly obvious here?
I think this is all handled by the 'loader' binary that is the first 
stage of the install.

However, the anaconda docs state that there is a boot command option:

  noshell         Do not put a shell on tty2 during install.

see: 
<http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html>

James Pearson