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. > > 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