[SOLVED] No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

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[SOLVED] No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by jnojr » 2015/07/21 17:21:16

Googling turns up a few mentions of this being a known bug in one or more older versions of CentOS, but I'm using DVD 1 for 6.6 I'm seeing this in a VM I created on an ESXi 6.0 host. How do I make this boot?

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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by avij » 2015/07/21 17:43:50

At which stage are you seeing this error message? Please check that the DVD image you are using is not corrupted.

CentOS-6.6-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
4632608768 bytes
md5sum: 7b1fb1a11499b31271ded79da6af8584
sha1sum: 08be09fd7276822bd3468af8f96198279ffc41f0
sha256sum: a63241b0f767afa1f9f7e59e6f0f00d6b8d19ed85936a7934222c03a92e61bf3
(checking only one of the hashes is sufficient)

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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by jnojr » 2015/07/21 18:53:30

md5 sum matches

As for stage, I have no idea... that's the first thing that come sup, pretty much immediately, when the VM boots from the ISO.

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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by TrevorH » 2015/07/21 22:09:08

Don't use the VMWare "Easy install" option, it's anything but.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by jnojr » 2015/07/21 22:16:53

TrevorH wrote:Don't use the VMWare "Easy install" option, it's anything but.
I'm not sure I know what you mean. What, specifically, should be done the "hard" way? :-)

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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by TrevorH » 2015/07/21 22:32:27

I've never used VMWare so don't know details but I have helped a lot of people who used some VMWare "Wizard" that "helps" them to install an operating system and it invariably makes a complete muck of it. It sets up a kickstart file tries to kick off the install using that and sizes all the partitions wrongly and generally is not useful at all. I believe there is a longer way around where you point it to the DVD iso file and tell it you want to create a VM but don't let it interfere. I suspect that you're hitting a vmware "let's make it easy" problem.
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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by jnojr » 2015/07/21 22:52:07

TrevorH wrote:I've never used VMWare so don't know details but I have helped a lot of people who used some VMWare "Wizard" that "helps" them to install an operating system and it invariably makes a complete muck of it. It sets up a kickstart file tries to kick off the install using that and sizes all the partitions wrongly and generally is not useful at all. I believe there is a longer way around where you point it to the DVD iso file and tell it you want to create a VM but don't let it interfere. I suspect that you're hitting a vmware "let's make it easy" problem.
OK, I know what you're talking about now. That never sounded like a good idea :-) All I'm doing is booting the VM from the ISO.

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Re: No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!

Post by jnojr » 2015/07/21 23:21:29

So, this turned out to be a sort of an odd duck! When I scp'ed my ISO to the ESXi host, it looked like it went just fine... but the resulting file was horribly truncated to about 80MB! And I was being an idiot and verifying the checksum on my host, not on the server :-) So all's well that ends well!

Thanks all!

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