In article 47E1BC4C.7000507@karan.org, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Tony Mountifield wrote:
Is there any way, when installing CentOS (or any RH-based distro), to prevent it from using disk labels in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf, and to force it to just use the actual device names?
I dont think there is any sane way, in either the C4 or C5 installers. If you do find a way to do that, let me know.
There is presently a conversation going on with the anaconda developers about dropping labelling completely, but that might be a long time before we see that in EL / CentOS released distros
OK, thanks for the info.
For testing purposes, I am installing two different CentOS versions in different partitions, and am having to change from labels to device names by hand, and re-label the disks, in order to avoid the boot process getting confused between the filesystems.
you could always just change fstab, perhaps a sneaky script in %post of the kickstart to do the hard work for you ?
Yes, for now I am just editing fstab and grub.conf by hand, but it might be possible to automate it somehow in a script, using e2label to find the correct device names.
Cheers Tony