[CentOS] unexpected 'reinitialize disk?' prompt form anaconda during kickstart with zerombr

Tue Mar 19 19:58:29 UTC 2013
Clint Dilks <clint.dilks at gmail.com>

Hi,

There has been a change since 6.3

"The 'clearpart --initlabel' option in a kickstart no longer initializes
drives in 6.3."

Try something like

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel



On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Duncan Hutty <dhutty at allgoodbits.org>wrote:

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> Anyone have any thoughts on why anaconda might be prompting me to
> reinitialize the disk during the kickstart of a Centos6.4 install on
> hyperV when
> a) the kickstart file contains "zerombr" as referred to in the
> installation guide[1]
> b) installation proceeds with no prompt on KVM hypervisors and succeeds?
>
> I have read the release notes[2]/tech notes[3] for 6.4 and noted lots
> of changes concerned with virtualization in general and hyperv hosts
> in particular, but I don't see anything that appears to be directly
> pertinent.
>
> I did try using the "clearpart --initlabel --all" approach (although
> that appears to be removed from 6.4), but I get the prompt with that
> as well.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
> [2]:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.4_Release_Notes/index.html
> [3]:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/index.html
> - --
> Duncan Hutty
> http://www.allgoodbits.org
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