Atomicorp

So I should stick with the first version - aooi instead of aooi2.

Never mind -- they were moving my server. See http://www.1and1faq.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1036 However, the "unable to download kickstart file" error remains. I tried canceling the kickstart and selecting a network install and input the location to download images, but neither name nor...

Maybe it had nothing to do with the config -- I just got a "link down" message in the serial console, and now my server has dropped off the face of the planet - no reboots, nothing. I will now call 1&1 support and plead my case.

1&1's debian 3.1 image runs aooi2 just the way it should. However, after booting, it says +-------------+ Error downloading kickstart file +-------------+ | | | Unable to download the kickstart file. Please modify the | | kickstart parameter below or press Cancel to proceed as an | | interactive...

thanks. The FC6 image provided by 1&1 does work, I just really don't like being on an unsupported OS, and there are other things that just aren't right with their images (no lilo, no lspci for example).

Thanks for the feedback. Does it look like I have the grub config correct? I haven't used it before. The only thing that comes to mind is perhaps the output isn't going to serial for the kernel piece. How long have you waited when you get to this point? I let it sit for three hours once and nothing ...

scott wrote: wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aoo2 |sh

I think that should be

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi2 | sh

This time I carefully typed in all the options for the kernel, and they show up -- but this is all I get. Booting command-list root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz.atomic ks=http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/AOOI/ks-i386 .cfg ip=217.160.242.xxx netmask=2...

FWIW, here's lspci and dmesg from a failed aooi2 initial boot: rescue:/# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80...

What failure information can we supply that would be helpful, besides the fact that the server hangs on boot?

No luck on aooi2 -- the atomic boot image just locks up at That is to say, nothing happens after that. How do I debug this or get it to keep going?

AOOI2 (v0.11.1) is some pretty good scripting. Comments: 1. aooi2 is still missing the second : in the kickstart path for the atomic boot. Line 452 is append="ks=hd:$KSDEV/ks-1and1-$ARCH.cfg console=ttyS0,57600n8" but should be append="ks=hd:$KSDEV:/ks-1and1-$ARCH.cfg console=ttyS0,57...

Thanks, I'll try the AOOI2. I tried acpi=off as suggested to guga-nyc, but it still locks up at ACPI: (supports<6>Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 388k I am getting a grub menu now, and it clea...

Third reimage, this time the default FC6 with plesk 8.2. This time I have been able to see the boot messages as they scrolled by: Restarting system. LILO 22.6.1 boot: Loading lx...................................................... BIOS data check successful Linux version 2.6.20.21-071108a (root@bui...

Well the serial console closed on me after about 20 minutes, despite my best efforts to hit space every two minutes. When I reconnected right away I got no response. I let it go almost three hours "just in case" it was really doing something. Finally forced a reboot in normal system, but n...