[CentOS] anaconda in centOS 4 fails to read md raid arrays

[Hilliard, Jay]

Don't forget the --initlabel option to clearpart if you're clearing out all the 
partitions.  I've encountered lots of problems without it.

-Jay

Feizhou wrote:
> Andreas Rogge wrote:
> 
>> Am Dienstag, den 07.06.2005, 15:10 +0800 schrieb Feizhou:
>>
>>
>>> You don't get good old fdisk via serial console or VNC...it is all 
>>> crappy disk druid or autopartition. I wish fdisk was still an option...
>>>
>> If you are trying to clean out the partitions anyway, you might try a
>> %pre section in you ks-file.
>> By simply doing something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your_whole_disk
>> bs=512 count=5" you can overwrite the first blocks of the disk including
>> its partition-table before anaconda actually starts.
>>
>> (yes, i know it sucks, but it should work)
> 
> 
> 
> geez, I thought clearpart --linux in the kickstart file would do that 
> anyway?
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