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I have a machine setup that does RAID level 1 mirroring. <br>
I create a kickstart config file and modify grub.conf such that it
points to my vmlinuz, initrd and kickstart files.<br>
My kickstart, vmlinuz and initrd files are in the /boot directory. <br>
<br>
Filesystem layout:<br>
<small># df<br>
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on<br>
/dev/md0 30233808 761376 27936624 3% /<br>
none 1990496 0 1990496 0% /dev/shm<br>
#cat /etc/fstab<br>
/dev/md0 / ext3
defaults 1 1<br>
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0<br>
none /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults 0 0<br>
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0<br>
none /sys
sysfs defaults 0 0<br>
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 swap swap
defaults 0 0<br>
/dev/hda /media/cdrom auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0<br>
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0<br>
</small><br>
vmlinuz and initrd files are detected fine and my machine boots up fine
until it fails to find the kickstart file.<br>
After that the loader prompts me to input values.<br>
<br>
Please find the extract from my grub.conf below:<br>
<small>/etc/grub.conf entry:<br>
--------------------------<br>
root (hd0,0)<br>
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-AS4.0-x86_84 ks='hd:md0:/boot/ks.cfg' ro
root=/dev/md0<br>
initrd /boot/initrd-AS4.0-x86_64.img</small><br>
<br>
Please find the display on tty1 below:<br>
<small>* getting kickstart file<br>
* getting kickstart file from harddrive<br>
* Loading ks from device md0 on path /ks.cfg<br>
* getFileFrom BlockDevice(md0, /ks.cfg)<br>
* failed to mount /dev/md0: Invalid argument<br>
* trying to mount CD device hda</small><br>
<br>
I understand that the "partition" information that I am specifying in
my path to ks is wrong. <br>
However, I tried various other options but cannot seem to get it right
at all.<br>
Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
Prasanna<br>
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