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 -- Adam Tilghman Systems Support / Academic Computing & Media Services [log in to unmask] 858-822-0711 University of California, San Diego