Atomicorp

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:27 am**

Hi - maybe Scott or someone can help me?

I have a recent 1and1 Enterprise Root Server II, running FC6 64bit, and I am trying to go to CentOS 5 64bit using the AOOI script.

It downloads the ISOs ok and reboots, but then in the serial console I see that the CentOS installer gets stuck and brings up a screen that 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 installation.

hd:sda2/ks-1and1-x86_64.cfg

Any ideas how to proceed? It seems that the path isn't correct, or that my hard disk isn't showing up? I have tried changing sda2 variously to sda1, sda3, sdb2 - but to no effect.

Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
/frogg

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:33 am**

# uname -a
Linux s1526XXXX.onlinehome-server.info 2.6.20.20-071008a #1 SMP Mon Oct 8 09:52:37 CEST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:42 am**

# lspci -v

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00:01.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom HT1000 PCI/PCI-X bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 96
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=03, sec-latency=96
        Memory behind bridge: ff400000-ff4fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f6300000-00000000f6a00000
        Capabilities: [90] PCI-X bridge device
        Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
        Capabilities: [b0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
        Capabilities: [d8] #0d [0000]

00:02.0 Host bridge: Broadcom HT1000 Legacy South Bridge
        Subsystem: Broadcom Unknown device 0201
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96

00:02.1 IDE interface: Broadcom HT1000 Legacy IDE controller (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Broadcom HT1000 Legacy IDE controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
        I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
        I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:02.2 ISA bridge: Broadcom HT1000 LPC Bridge
        Subsystem: Broadcom Unknown device 0230
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:03.0 USB Controller: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
        Memory at ff6b4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:03.1 USB Controller: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
        Memory at ff6b5000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:03.2 USB Controller: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Broadcom HT1000 USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
        Memory at ff6b6000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Tyan Computer Unknown device 3870
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 24
        Memory at ff680000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        Memory at ff660000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at ff640000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device

00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI - Xabre Graphics Inc Volari Z7 (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: XGI - Xabre Graphics Inc Volari Z7
        Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
        BIST result: 00
        Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at ff6c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
        Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
        Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [f0] #0f [0010]

00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
        Capabilities: [a0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
        Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
        Flags: fast devsel

00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: [f0] #0f [0010]

01:0d.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom HT1000 PCI/PCI-X bridge (rev c0) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96
        Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=96
        Memory behind bridge: ff400000-ff4fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f6300000-00000000f6a00000
        Capabilities: [90] PCI-X bridge device
        Capabilities: [88] #0d [0000]

02:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80331 [Lindsay] I/O processor (PCI-X Bridge) (rev 0a) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96
        Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=96
        Memory behind bridge: ff400000-ff4fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f6300000-00000000f6a00000
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [f0] PCI-X bridge device

03:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1110 4-Port PCI-X to SATA RAID Controller
        Subsystem: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1110 4-Port PCI-X to SATA RAID Controller
        Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 18
        Memory at ff4ff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at f6400000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Expansion ROM at ff4e0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
        Capabilities: [e0] PCI-X non-bridge device

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:54 pm**

can you send me the output of fdisk -l?

Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:03 pm**

# fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/sda: 499.9 GB, 499999834112 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 476837 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         955      977904   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             956        2863     1953792    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4            2864      476837   485349376    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2864        7632     4883440   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7633       12401     4883440   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           12402      476837   475582448   83  Linux

but unfortunately, we will not get a chance to re-try a CentOS upgrade for another day or two - if at all. this is because the machine will be going live as one of our production servers.

luckily everything on it will be in vmware, so we may still try the os upgrade again at a later date - because it should not impact the virtual servers.

don't know if this is useful too:-

# cat /etc/fstab

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/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/sda2       none            swap    sw              
/dev/sda5    /usr       xfs     defaults        0 2
/dev/sda7    /var       xfs     defaults        0 2
/dev/sda6       /home           xfs     defaults,usrquota       0 2
devpts          /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none            /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
none            /tmp    tmpfs   defaults        0 0

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:27 am**

and you're using this right?

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

this should report version 0.9.2

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:36 pm**

yes 0.92

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:39 pm**

Did it download the ISO and ks.cfg to /mnt?

Posted: **Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:55 pm**

yes to both

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:18 pm**

Hi Scott,
I also had the same problem as the other user with the 1and1 FC6 x64 miminal image. Also on Enterprise Root Server II. I used wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/aooi |sh

It couldn't find the kickstart file. The mount just before reboot showed:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda5 on /usr type xfs (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /var type xfs (rw)
/dev/sda7 on /home type xfs (rw,usrquota)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
/mnt/CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso on /mnt/1 type iso9660 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

I don't see the kickstart mounted.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:56 pm**

Just reimaged and tried with fc4 64 bit. Same problem. This time I confirmed the kickstart file was in /mnt which should be sda2.

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:28 am**

What path does lilo.conf indicate its using for the kickstart file, and what file exists in /mnt?

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:04 pm**

In lilo.conf the atomic section reads:

image=/boot/vmlinuz.atomic
label=atomic
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="ks=hd:sda2/ks-1and1-x86_64.cfg console=ttyS0,57600n8"

In /mnt:

:/mnt # ls
1 CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-2of7.iso ks-1and1-x86_64.cfg lost+found

# mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda5 on /usr type xfs (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /var type xfs (rw,usrquota)
/dev/sda7 on /home type xfs (rw,usrquota)
/dev/sda8 on /srv type xfs (rw,usrquota)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
/mnt/CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso on /mnt/1 type iso9660 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

I'm now using the SUSE 10 image, 3rd unique image tried so it seems the problem is with the enterprise server config.

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:29 pm**

The kickstart doesnt mount, its just a config file that it uses at boot time. So what message do you get on the grub console when you try to reboot into the installer image?

Posted: **Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:33 pm**

the screen that comes up after reboot is:

Welcome to CentOS

+-------------+ 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________________ |
| |
| +----+ +--------+ |
| | OK | | Cancel | |
| +----+ +--------+ |
| |
| |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

Atomicorp

AOOI - Error downloading kickstart file - FC6 1and1 x86_64

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