Jon,

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, csieh wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Jon Peatfield wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I will research this.  Thanks for reporting it.

Finding out that etc/keymaps.gz was too small really helped in finding
this problem.  Seems like the "buildinstall" script from RedHat does not
like a serial console.  A program called readmap is run which reads
/dev/console.  This program fails if you have a serial console.  So I will
put this info in the instructions for building a new site.

A new version with this fixed will be available soon.

Thanks

-connie sieh

>
> >
> > 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/
> >
> >
>
> We have finally gotten this web area open.  Thanks for your patience.
> Try it now.
>
> -Connie Sieh
>