Trouble creating RHEL 6.5 bootable image with custom kickstart file
Hi everyone,
I have a custom kickstart file from a software vendor and I'm trying to package that with a RHEL 6.5 and then attach it to a VM and install RHEL with the settings in the kickstarter file. I'm doing this from a windows PC using an app called InfraRecorder.
I've extracted the contents of an original RHEL 6.5 ISO, placed the custom ks.cfg file in the root of the image and then I create my ISO with InfraRecorder and mount it to the VM however when I boot up the VM I keep receiving this error
For the boot sector I have placed the files isolinux.bin, boot.cat and efiboot.img.
What am I missing? Hopefully this is the right place to ask this question, I realize I'm using windows to create the image but I figured this has more to do with modifying the Linux ISO and something I'm not doing correctly. I've googled this and searched here in the forums prior to posting this and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance!
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
ksc
KSC(1) User Commands KSC(1)NAME
ksc - Linux kernel module source checker
SYNOPSIS
ksc [ -d | --directory ] DIRECTORY
ksc [ -k | --ko ] FILE
OPTIONS
KSC accepts command-line arguments, and has both a long and short form usage. You can use either style or combine them to specify
options. When the tool is run with kernel module sources it checks for all four architectures, and when run with binary kernel modules, it
checks for the specific architecture for which the binary was built.
Valid RHEL whitelist releases are rhel6.0, rhel6.1, rhel6.2, rhel6.3, rhel6.4
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
path to the local ksc.conf file. If not specified the tool tries to read from ~/ksc.conf and if that is also not found then from
/etc/ksc.conf
-d DIRECTORY, --directory=DIRECTORY
path to the directory
-i, --internal
to create text files to be used internally.
-k KO, --ko=KO
path to the ko file. You should either use -d or -k to run the KSC tool, but not both. If both -d and -k option is used at the
same time then only -d is used and the -k option is discarded.
-n RELEASENAME, --name=RELEASENAME
Red Hat release against which the bug is to be filed. Default value is 6.5
-p PREVIOUS, --previous=PREVIOUS
path to the previous resultset file and submit it as a bug to Red Hat Bugzilla.
-r RELEASE, --release=RELEASE
RHEL whitelist release used for comparison
-s, --submit
Submits the report to the Red Hat bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com). The credentials need to be in the /etc/ksc.conf file. The
tool will prompt for bugzilla password.
The configuration file looks like below:
[bugzilla]
user=user@redhat.com
partner=partner-name
partnergroup=partner-group
server=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/xmlrpc.cgi
-v, --version
Prints KSC version number
ksc - Version 0.9.11 Feb 2014 KSC(1)