Atomicorp

I really wasn't kidding when I said to remove the changes made to lilo.conf.

OmiKrOn wrote:Same problem:


+-------------+ Error downloading kickstart file +-------------+
| |
| Unable to download the kickstart file. Please modify the |
| kickstart parameter below or press Cancel to proceed as an |
| interactive installation. |
| |
| hd:sda2/ks-1and1-x86_64.cfg_________________________________ |

I don`t think you have any modified install kernel?

EXACT same problem here, also with 1and1 server with fedora.
Scott, also tried removing changes to lilo.conf, allways same problem.

Have tried the script like 20 times, allways get a screen like that.

If i press continue to interactive, then i have the problem that the program allways tries to put two bars after the name of the server where the OS is

like: http://mirror.domain.com//directory/to/base

notice the // after the domain, no way of getting rid of that // vars in any combination of server name or directory. So, then its impossible for it to find that URL that himself has made wrong

Hope you can give us some light here

You have to run "lilo" again whenever you make changes to lilo.conf. Its not instant like grub

I haven't finished this yet but this seems to fix the lilo issue.
Geez what a bunch of ....

mv /sbin/lilo.real /sbin/lilo
cp -a /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.01
#remove the linux.old and atomic entries
vi /etc/lilo.conf
lilo

aooi2
Got lilo, it couldn't load the kickstart file ;(

I tried again with local install.
I saw an error that /mnt didn't exist but it didn't complain otherwise.
When it booted it couldn't see the iso/whatever.
I'm re-imaging and trying again with the above steps and creating /mnt
Why 1and1 can't just have Centos 5 as an install image baffles me.

Ok.. this go around I seemed to find the love
I ran the commands below and rebooted (/mnt existed this time... go figure).
This is the first time I've seen it formatting the file system, installing packages,etc.

mv /sbin/lilo.real /sbin/lilo
cp -a /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.01
mkdir /mnt
wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi2 |sh


1and1 loaded the box with fc4 the first time and within 6 months it was de-supported, then plesk was desupported on fc4. I tried doing a fc4->fc5 update using yum and ended up with a messed up rpm database. I'm done with plesk; it burned me twice! Having backups that are incompatible between versions (loading older on newer) was number 1, and having no easy way to migrate from the box was number 2. I spent the last 2.5 weeks manually moving 40 accounts off my server after being hacked. What a pain in the ....

Scott.. thank you! Without your efforts I'd never been able to keep the pile of ... software... that plesk is up for as long as I could.

Thanks for the follow up, hopefully this will help someone else if they run into this problem.

The installer (local install) locked up; I let it sit for a few hours waiting for it to fix itself and eventually rebooted... kernel panic
I re-imaged the server and tried it a second time with the same result:

Linux version 2.6.23.17-20080302 (root@buildd-i386) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115
(prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Sun Mar 2 08:05:03 CET 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f7f0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f7f0000 - 000000000f7f3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f7f3000 - 000000000f800000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
247MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f4ed0
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 63472
HighMem 63472 -> 63472
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 63472
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F6870, 0014 (r0 VIAP4M)
ACPI: RSDT 0F7F3000, 002C (r1 VIAP4M AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: FACP 0F7F3040, 0074 (r1 VIAP4M AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: DSDT 0F7F30C0, 3B99 (r1 VIAP4M AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 100000D)
ACPI: FACS 0F7F0000, 0040
ACPI: APIC 0F7F6C80, 0068 (r1 VIAP4M AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0)
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 0f800000:ef400000)
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 62977
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=lxser ro root=301 console=tty0 console=ttyS
0,57600 panic=30
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Detected 2003.577 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 246020k/253888k available (3289k kernel code, 7344k reserved, 1275k data
, 220k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfff4d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 712 kB)
pkmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 (2048 kB)
vmalloc : 0xd0000000 - 0xffbfe000 ( 763 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcf7f0000 ( 247 MB)
.init : 0xc067d000 - 0xc06b4000 ( 220 kB)
.data : 0xc05367ca - 0xc06756fc (1275 kB)
.text : 0xc0200000 - 0xc05367ca (3289 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4011.69 BogoMIPS (lpj=8023394)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 17k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz stepping 09
Total of 1 processors activated (4011.69 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
xor: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 2603.000 MB/sec
xor: using function: pIII_sse (2603.000 MB/sec)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb300, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by vt8235 PM
PCI quirk: region 0500-050f claimed by vt8235 SMB
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 *15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
Generic PHY: Registered new driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xcd800-0xcffff has been reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x400-0x47f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x500-0x50f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: e8000000-e9ffffff
PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
cpufreq: No nForce2 chipset.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1207736358.848:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
fuse init (API version 7.
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
async_tx: api initialized (sync-only)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: VIA PCI bridge detected. Disabling DAC.
ACPI Exception (processor_core-0818): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not pres
ent [20070126]
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.0 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 sec
onds).
Hangcheck: Using get_cycles().
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
loop: module loaded
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.23-k4-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
via-rhine: Broken BIOS detected, avoid_D3 enabled.
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.3 2007-03-06 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [ALKD] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ
16
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xea401000, 00:40:63:c8:48:99, IRQ 16.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
LXT970: Registered new driver
LXT971: Registered new driver
Broadcom BCM5411: Registered new driver
Broadcom BCM5421: Registered new driver
Broadcom BCM5461: Registered new driver
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.60.
tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.1[A] -> Link [ALKA] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ
17
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: ST340014A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2449]-ms
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.010.
kvm: no hardware support
has_svm: not amd
kvm: no hardware support
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
i2c /dev entries driver
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
raid6: int32x1 627 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 624 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 541 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 373 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1620 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 1759 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 827 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 1407 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 1418 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2173 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2173 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
md: faulty personality registered for level -5
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com

Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (4096 buckets, 16384 max)
ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ClusterIP Version 0.8 loaded successfully
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Rebooting in 30 seconds..


Now I'll try removing all the packages from the ks file.

It's hanging here.. not sure what to do

+------------------+ Package Installation +------------------+
| |
| Name : kernel-2.6.18-8.el5-i686 |
| Size : 34674k |
| Summary: The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux |
| operating system) |
| |
| 100% |
| |
| Packages Bytes Time |
| Total : 340 524M 0:07:17 |
| Completed: 268 383M 0:05:19 |
| Remaining: 72 141M 0:01:57 |
| |
| 73% |
| |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

It's too bad you couldn't just make a drive image (/dev/hda) and use the serial console and use netcat/dd to just write the drive image.
Along the idea of this:
http://digiassn.blogspot.com/2006/01/dd ... ghost.html
would that sort of thing be possible?

That is more or less what local install does. Ive never seen it hang in mid-install unless there was some kind of hardware failure on the system.

At this point I'd settle for Fedora Core 6->7->8 IF I could replace their stupid kernel. I've installed newer kernels but their lilo uses their funky 2.6.23.17-20080302 kernel. I'd settle for that IF it came with the kernel headers/kernel-devel. I can't compile anything that requires the kernel libs.

When I install the new libs do a grub-install /dev/hda and reboot it comes up looking for /dev/sda1! Weird. Very frustrating

I managed to get a yum update to FC8 with the new kernel and then realized it wasn't using it.

Have you had any luck replacing their kernel?

I havent tried in the last few years, I've always just re-imaged it with centos. I'm almost certain that the problem you're experiencing is related to bad hardware. Its the only thing that could cause anaconda to fail like that.

I've tried all their fedora images.. guess I'll try the debian one next.
and see if the aooi2 works on it.
Looks like it's lilo is set up.
I'll report how it goes.