[CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:23pm, Jerry Geis wrote

> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" 
> --onpart=sda1 --size=20000
> part --ondisk=sda swap    --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" 
> --onpart=sda2 --size=4000
> part --ondisk=sda raid.02 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" 
> --onpart=sda3 --size=1     --grow
> part --ondisk=sdb raid.03 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" 
> --onpart=sdb1 --size=20000
> part --ondisk=sdb swap    --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" 
> --onpart=sdb2 --size=4000
> part --ondisk=sdb raid.04 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" 
> --onpart=sdb3 --size=1     --grow
> raid /     --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md0 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 
> raid.01 raid.03
> raid /home --bytes-per-inode=4096 --device=md1 --fstype="ext3" --level=1 
> raid.02 raid.04
>
> I changed the config to use --ondisk above and at install I get a message 
> saying:
>
> "Unable to locate partition sda1 to use for ."
> Press OK to reboot your system.

Remove the 'onpart's.  You can't use 'clearpart' and 'onpart' together. 
The manual says onpart tells anaconda to "Put the partition on the 
*already existing* device", but clearpart *removes* any already extant 
devices.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF