On Fri, August 5, 2016 8:11 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:55:07PM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the beginning of the disk.
/boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB
Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well.
part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1
(It's not necessary if you're using MBR, but it isn't clear if that's the case here.)
Thanks Jonathan! biosboot was exactly that what solved it. I didn't find exact documentation but it sounds like you don't have much of a handle on which disklabel anaconda puts on drive. Cleverly enough it puts gpt (at least on drives larger than 2 TB). Thanks again everybody for all your insights. Here is drive portion of my kickstart file that wipes drive no matter what and puts custom partitioning in case someone some time comes across this thread
# System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda --append="crashkernel=no rhgb quiet" # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda # Disk partitioning information part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=500 --label=/boot part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=25000 --label=/ part /var --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=3000 --label=/var part /tmp --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=1000 --label=/tmp part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --size=4000 part /usr/local --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=20000 --label=/usr/local part /home --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=50000 --label=/home part /data --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=100 --grow --label=/data
Thanks again, everybody! Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++