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Jon Peatfield <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:24:58 +0100
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I downloaded the 30rolling over the weekend and today tested a boot to
the installer (booting using pxe in my case).

The installer starts up fine but (in the first stage of the installer)
it complains that it can't load the keymap file.  The example
syslinux.cfg file has keymap=us so I added that but it gives the same
error in any case.

  "failed to read keymap information:
   Success"

It then asks me again once we are in the 2nd stage and is happy to
take UK (or US) at this point.

Looking at the initrd it seems that the etc/keymaps.gz file is far too
small:

ls -al /mnt/image/etc/key*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           28 Sep  8 17:04 /mnt/image/etc/keymaps.gz

while the file in the initrd for the 3.0.2 release was:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13079 Jun 14 16:57 /mnt/image2/etc/keymaps.gz

replacing the keymap.gz file with the one from the 302 seems to fix
it.

I'm currently testing an install on a test machine (pentium4) using
the same (well almost) kickstart file I was using to test wbel-3.0
(the cfg is based on a test setup for RH9 which is loosely based on
what we use for our live systems).

So far no errors from that, and it is now up and seems fine:

$ uname -a
Linux ltn.damtp.cam.ac.uk 2.4.21-20.EL #1 Thu Sep 2 17:04:22 CDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Scientific Linux SL Release 3.0.3 (SL)

so it passes a trivial installation test.

> Please send bug reports to the bug tracker that is at
>
>         http://www.scientificlinux.org

I'd have reported the keymap issue on the web-tracker but I still get
refused access to http://www.scientificlinux.org/

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