partition cciss/c0d0 using ks.cfg file with multiple cciss devices attached

[Reynold L Demarco]

Thanks Christian.  Glad to hear its working for someone, hopefully I'm 
just doing something silly, but I can't seem to find it.  I retried 
using the --initlabel option and I still get the same result.  Not sure 
what my issue is. 

What version(s) of redat does the below work for in your experience?  
I'm trying to get it working with RH ES3 AS

Christian.Rohrmeier at SCHERING.DE wrote:

>Hello Reynold,
>
>The following works for me, even on systems with 2 CPQRaid Controllers
>(e.g. 5i with local disks plus 6400 with external SCSI Enclosure) and
>various (CPQRaid-defined) locgical drives (e.g. c0d0, c0d1, c0d2,
>c1d0,c1d2, etc.) "c0d0" is always the first logical disk on the first CPQ
>RAID controller, and the rest go from there. Typical would be a DL380 with
>4 local disks. These are setup as two RAID 1+0 mirrored drives (= 2 logical
>drives.) Add to that a non-onboard RAID Controller (a CPQ 6400 say) with an
>extneral enclosure and 12 drives, in a RAID 5 or RAID ADG setup.
>
>The only thing I notice thats different from your script is that I use
>"--initlabel" with clearpart, and that I use both "--drives=" and
>"--ondisk=".
>
>clearpart --drives=cciss/c0d0 --all --initlabel
>part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --asprimary --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
>part swap --size 2000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
>part / --fstype ext3 --size 8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
>
>Cheers,
>
>Christian
>
>_________________
>Christian Rohrmeier
>Schering AG
>Corporate IT - Infrastructure and Services
>Computer Systems and Operations
>System Administration - Research and Development
>Tel +49 30 468 15794
>Fax +49 30 468 95794
>
>
>                                                                           
>             Reynold L Demarco                                             
>             <reynold.demarco@                                             
>             bms.com>                                                   To 
>             Sent by:                  kickstart-list at redhat.com           
>             kickstart-list-bo                                          cc 
>             unces at redhat.com                                              
>                                                                   Subject 
>                                       partition cciss/c0d0 using ks.cfg   
>             07.11.2005 16:06          file with multiple cciss devices    
>                                       attached                            
>                                                                           
>             Please respond to                                             
>              Discussion list                                              
>              about Kickstart                                              
>             <kickstart-list at r                                             
>                edhat.com>                                                 
>                                                                           
>                                                                           
>
>
>
>
>Has anyone had luck auto-partitioning a cciss/c0d0 device using a ks.cfg
>file and the ondisk parameter when there are multiple cciss devices on the
>system?  Below is the snippet of my ks.cfg file I am using to try and
>accomplish this.  Using the below snippet, if I leave off the ondisk
>parameters, it all works, but spreads my filesystems across multiple disks
>on the system, which is not what I want.  I want to force it to the
>internal cciss/c0d0 disk only.  When I leave it this way, it retrieves the
>base.img files, parses my config file, then gives me the error: "Could not
>allocate the requested partitions:  Partitioning failed: Could not allocate
>partitions."
>clearpart --drives cciss/c0d0 --all
>part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 512 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
>part / --fstype ext3 --size 14000 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
>part /var --fstype ext3 --size 10000 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
>part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 2000 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
>part swap  --size 2048 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
>
>If the cciss/c0d0 partition table is cleared, I do have enough room on the
>disk for the above partitions.  I've tried the above with and without the
>"=" as well.  I've also tried leaving out the clearpart and starting with a
>blank disk.  And I can use the same exact snippet above except I replace
>the cciss/c0d0 with the appropriate sda or hda on a system with hd or sd
>drives and it works just fine when there are multiple hd or sd drives
>attached.
>Any help appreciated.  Thanks.
>_______________________________________________
>Kickstart-list mailing list
>Kickstart-list at redhat.com
>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Kickstart-list mailing list
>Kickstart-list at redhat.com
>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
>  
>