Re: RE [Xen-users] kickstart %post not executed

Simone
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:33:31 -0000

Hi Alain,

Thanks for your reply. I changed my post as you suggested and it worked,
then I reverted back to prove the point and it kept working :) so I guess
I''ll never understand why it was broken.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Simone

On Feb 6, 2008 12:25 PM, Alain BARTHE <alain.barthe@cirso.fr> wrote:

>
> Hi Simone,
>
> I suppose you mess something, because kickstart installations run quite
> fine for us.
>
> You should try to put the following lines at the beginning of the %post
> part to see what''s happen:
>
> exec < /dev/tty8 &> /dev/tty8
> chvt 8
> set -x
> read foo
>
> By this way, the %post commands may be seen on the 8th console (alt-F8).
> The "read foo" command pauses the execution, you have to type
<cr> to go on.
>
> Cheers
> Alain.
>
> xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com a écrit sur 06/02/2008 12:42:43 :
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to automate the provisioning of a few VM, dom0 CentOS5 -
> > domU CentOS4.5, the installation goes well but it completely ignores
> > the %post bit in the kickstart:
> >
> > # Kickstart file for a generic VM
> > install
> > url --url http://server/mrepo/centos4-x86_64/disc1
> > cmdline
> > skipx
> > reboot
> >
> > # Partition information
> > .....
> >
> > # General system config
> > bootloader --location=mbr
> > keyboard uk
> > lang en_GB.UTF-8
> > langsupport en_GB.UTF-8
> > timezone --utc GMT
> > mouse none
> >
> > # Network information
> > network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
> >
> > # Security bits
> > authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablecache
> > rootpw --iscrypted somepasswd
> > firewall --disabled
> > selinux --disabled
> >
> >
> > %packages
> > @core
> >
> >
> > %post
> > echo "Now starting post install"
> > mkdir /tmp/VM
> >
> > Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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