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