Software RAID and anaconda

[Miles, Paul]

Hello,

We're using custom kickstarts to install to HP DL140 servers. Since
these servers have 2 IDE hard drives, we're using RAID 1 software raid
to configure them.

The actual raid configuration works perfectly, the systems install,
although very slowly.

I tracked the slowness problem to the fact that anaconda appears to be
automatically rebuilding the RAID array on each install. I've tried
trashing the MBR (ie, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=512; dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1k count=512) and this seems to perfectly
remove the partition table information as shown by fdisk -l but yet
still as soon as anaconda makes the partitions during the kickstart, the
RAID rebuilding kicks off again.

Vital statistics :

Fedora core 3
HP Dl140 - xeon processor
1GB ram
2 x IDE hard drives

Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received,

Paul 
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