clearpart --linux --initlabel ok?

[Christian.Rohrmeier at SCHERING.DE]

Hi All,

I ran into this problem recently. I used "clearpart --linux". My admins
found that after install the system didn't boot properly. It turns out the
server had previously had a non-linux OS installed. Therefore I find that
"--initlabel" is very important to guarantee that anaconda will be able to
partition the drive, unless ofcourse you know for sure that there was only
Linux on your server perviously.

-Christian

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On 5/20/05, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> My understanding is that --initlabel instructs kickstart to completely
> reinitialize the partition table back to an empty state, which would
> render --linux somewhat irrelevant.

That is correct.   The --initlabel option is pretty extreme, and is
not normally needed.

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