disable kudzu from managing cdrom/floppy during kickstart

[Paul Pianta]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:18 -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> I've got a problem where /usr/sbin/updfstab is creating I/O bound 
> (uninterruptible wait state) processes on my IBM bladecenter.  Seems 
> that since the bladecenter shares the CDROM/floppy among all 14 separate 
> blades and those drives are only available to one blade at any given 
> moment, when the system comes online after its kickstart it defaults to 
> allowing kudzu to manage those devices (from /etc/fstab mount entries). 
>   As a result, updfstab gets confused and systems have load averages 
> like 100 and other such nonsense.
> 
> Is there any way I can disable kudzu from managing those devices from 
> within the ks.cfg, so when the systems come online this won't be a problem?

You could just add the following line to your ks.cfg in the %post
section ...

%post
chkconfig kudzu off

Hope that helps

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