disk order changes?

[John Summerfield]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:37:07PM +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
>> On 04/04/2009 06:11 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing a somewhat related issue when installing RHEL/Centos 5 systems 
>> from an usb stick. The grub device map gets all mixed up and the 
>> installed system doesn't boot. After every install I have to boot into 
>> the rescue system and fix the device map and grub config to remove the 
>> usb stick reference and have the entries point to the right device.
> 
> Documented in CentOS release notes.  
> 
> Assuming that you're only using the USB stick to boot to a network or
> hard drive installation....
> 
> As soon as Anaconda starts (CentOS notes say wait for the GUI, but I
> haven't found it necessary), pull out the USB stick.
> 
> 

Should be able to fix it with ks (which could be interactive) and a 
%post script to fix the grub configuration.

You'll need to examine a fixed system to see what "fixed" means.



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