On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 05:11:52PM +0100, t m wrote:
> I canīt use local media like USB or CD/DVD cause I have no physical access to the VPS.
> I will check for remote console access. I think I saw something like that in my control panel.
Here's the script I use to trigger a remote reinstall.
(If you're not using kickstart you could remove the "ks=" and "ksdevice=" entries,
in which case you'd obtain an interactive install.)
$KERN and $INITRD are "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" taken from the CentOS boot CD.
Also, you'll need to install "kexec-tools".
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH
KSSERVER=some.name.com
ARCH=`uname -i`
KERN=/boot/vmlinuz-${ARCH}-REINSTALL
INITRD=/boot/initrd-${ARCH}-REINSTALL.img
ARGSA="ks=http://${KSSERVER}/CentOS6-cgi-bin/ks.cgi/arch=$ARCH ksdevice=eth0"
ARGSB="vga=0"
if kexec -l $KERN --initrd=$INITRD --append="$ARGSA $ARGSB"; then
chvt 1
/sbin/shutdown -r now
else
echo "kexec() failed; will not reboot"
fi
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