Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fails with error "IOError No such file or directory /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf?"
Issue
- Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fails with an error as follows.
06:02:31,390 DEBUG : instbootloader is a direct step
06:02:32,226 INFO : Running kickstart %%traceback script(s)
06:02:32,227 INFO : All kickstart %%traceback script(s) have been run
06:02:32,234 CRITICAL: anaconda 13.21.195 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/booty/x86.py", line 258, in writeGrubConf
f = open(cf, "w+")
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/booty/x86.py", line 226, in writeGrub
cfPath)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/booty/x86.py", line 535, in write
not self.useGrubVal)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/bootloader.py", line 238, in writeBootloader
kernelList, otherList, defaultDev)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 210, in moveStep
rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 666, in run
anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1132, in <module>
anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf'
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Kickstart installation
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