We have all of the disk tools (seatools, etc) on the same PXE loader that we use to do our kickstarts, so we simply use the disktools from the manufacturer to test the drives before kickstarting a system.

If you tell me what manufacturer's HDs you use I can email you a .img file for their particular 'disk tool' that you can use memdisk to boot over the network.

Thanks, -Drew

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Balaji Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:45 AM To: CentOS@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Reg:Checking HDD Badblocks on kickstart CentOS installation

Hi All, Is there a way to check the harddisk health before CentOS installation.?

One way I used to do was by using --badblocks check in ks.cfg file while using RH 7.2.

This is not working (atleast not with the same syntax as in RH 7.2) in CentOS. Is there an alternate (correct) syntax or is there a new (better) way to check harddisk health before CentOS installation?

Please help me and it is very urgent requirement for me

--Regards S.Balaji

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