[CentOS] Kickstart issue with UEFi

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Gordon Messmer
<gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2016 11:35 PM, Phil Manuel wrote:
>>
>> The relevant kickstart section is:-
>>
>> part /boot/efi --fstype efi --grow --maxsize=200 --size=20 --ondisk=sda
>> bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda1
>> autopart --type=lvm
>
>
>
> A couple of things to consider:
> * The documentation for "autopart" states that "The autopart command can't
> be used with the logvol, part/partition, raid, reqpart, or volgroup in the
> same kickstart file," so your use of autopart and "part /boot/efi" appear to
> be incompatible.  Maybe drop the "part" line.
> * I specify partitions for kickstart, but my bootloader line is:
>   bootloader --location=mbr --append="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
>   No location is specified, the installer works it out.  Given the error you
> posted, I think sda1 might not be where anaconda is putting the EFI
> partition.

That appears to be basically correct. It'll put it on sda1 but it
doesn't want you to tell it to put it on sda1 when using autopart.
Pretty much autopart wants to be told very little, and Phil's
kickstart is being too explicit for autopart.



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Chris Murphy