Subject: RE: Bootloader stalling during install - msg#00194

To answer my own question:

It seems that the X screen will have the window "Installing Bootloader"
up through-out the whole %post section.

This is the last thing done before running the post script and it
doesn't remove this window before proceeding.

In my case I had a bad command in the first line of my post script that
was simply running and never returning nor creating any output, so the
machine just hung seemingly while loading GRUB but in actuality it was
already in the post section.

Hope this helps someone else too.

Sean


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Sean P. Kane
spkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lead Infrastructure Architect
Genomatica, Inc.
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"When we destroy something man has created we call it vandalism......
When we destroy something that Gaia has created we call it progress."


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean P. Kane
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:29
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Bootloader stalling during install


Has anyone seen any problems with the bootloader installing correctly?

I am getting to the point where grub is being installed and kickstart
just seems to sit there forever.

It is printing a few errors to one of the VTs, but I'm not sure it is
related, they seem like NFS issues (and I am doing the kickstart over
NFS, but it generally seems to be working):

portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
lockd_up: makesock failed, error:-5

My bootloader line looks like this:

bootloader --md5pass=imnottelling --location=mbr --append "hdc=ide-scsi"

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Sean


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Sean P. Kane
spkane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lead Infrastructure Architect
Genomatica, Inc.
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"When we destroy something man has created we call it vandalism......
When we destroy something that Gaia has created we call it progress."