Kickstart RAID1 help

Mukarram Syed muksyed at stanford.edu
Wed Jun 27 06:56:21 UTC 2007


Hi

I am trying to get Kickstart working with RAID1.  The regular Kickstart
works fine (without RAID1).

Googl'ing for these errors didn't help.

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks much.

 

-Mukarram Syed.

 

 

This is my RAID1 setup:

 

#Partition clearing information

clearpart --all --initlabel

 

 

#############################################################

 

# RAID1 Partitioning:

 

part raid.01 --size 100 --ondisk sda

part raid.02 --size 100 --ondisk sdb

 

# /

part raid.03 --size 25000 --ondisk sda

part raid.04 --size 25000 --ondisk sdb

 

# Swap

part raid.05 --recommended --ondisk sda

part raid.06 --recommended --ondisk sdb

 

# /u01

part raid.07 --size 18000 --ondisk sda

part raid.08 --size 18000 --ondisk sdb

 

# /x01

part raid.09 --size 4000 --ondisk sda

part raid.10 --size 4000 --ondisk sdb

 

# /s01

part raid.11 --size 15000 --ondisk sda

part raid.12 --size 15000 --ondisk sdb

 

#Disk partitioning information

 

raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level 1 --device md0 raid.01 raid.02 --asprimary

raid / --fstype ext3 --level 1 --device md1 raid.03 raid.04 --asprimary

raid swap --fstype swap --level 1 --device md2 raid.05 raid.06 --asprimary

raid /u01 --fstype ext3 --level 1 --device md4 raid.07 raid.08

raid /x01 --fstype ext3 --level 1 --device md5 raid.09 raid.10

raid /s01 --fstype ext3 --level 1 --device md6 raid.11 raid.12

 

#############################################################

 

This is the error I am getting on the console:

 

Probing for monitor type:   Unknown monitor

Probing for mouse type:   No - mouse

Graphical installation not available...  Starting text mode.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1130, in ?

    instClass.setInstallData(id)

  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1439, in setInstallData

    raise KickstartError, e

kickstart.KickstartValueError: partition command requires a size
specification

install exited abnormally

sending termination signals...done

sending kill signals...done

disabling swap...

unmounting filesystems...

        /mnt/runtime done

        disabling /dev/loop0

        /proc/bus/usb done

        /proc done

        /dev/pts done

        /sys done

        /tmp/ramfs done

        /selinux done

you may safely reboot your system

 

 

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