Kickstart on s390x fails with "No method given for cmdline mode, aborting"

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Issue

  •      When trying to kickstart a new guest under z/VM the kickstart fails with "No method given for cmdline mode, aborting".
  •     The kickstart file in question was generated by a normal install of RHEL6 under z/VM.
  •      The parameters file has the following entries.

      root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000
      CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=RHEL6.CON
    ks=http://<kickstart-url>  
      RUNKS=1 cmdline
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (IBM Power)

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