RHEL5 kickstart overwrites USB

[Shabazian, Chip]

Are you sure the system is seeing the USB as sd(a,b,c)1?  Add a sleep to
your %pre, get a shell, and take a look.

 

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From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hajducko, Steven
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:47 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: RHEL5 kickstart overwrites USB

 

Hi, 

So we're running into a strange issue where a kickstart from a USB/CDROM
combo on an HP DL385 G5 system is actually installing and reformatting
the USB stick.

We place the kickstart file on the USB drive, drop in a RHEL5 DVD and
run: 

linux ks=hd:sda1:/hostname.cfg 

The installation goes fine and our packages are installed, but upon
reboot and examining the USB stick, it has been reformatted to ext3 FS
and contains :

stha3155 at ghost:/media/usb$ ls 
config-2.6.18-8.el5  grub  initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img  lost+found
symvers-2.6.18-8.el5.gz  System.map-2.6.18-8.el5  vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5

Upon reboot of the system, it crashes with a bunch of OPCODE errors. 

The relevant part of our kickstart looks like this ( we don't do
anything tricky in our packages or post install, just touch a few config
files.. )

install 
cdrom 
lang en_US 
langsupport --default=en_US en_US 
keyboard us 
skipx 
text 
ignoredisk --drives=sda1,sdb1,sdc1 
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.27.17 --netmask
255.255.255.0 --hostname hostname.domain.com 
network --device eth1 --onboot no 
rootpw --iscrypted ##### 
firewall --disabled 
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 
timezone America/Los_Angeles 
selinux --disabled 
zerombr yes 
bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet" 
reboot 
clearpart --all 
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 --asprimary 
part swap --size=6912 --asprimary 
part pv.01 --size=100 --grow 
volgroup rootvg pv.01 
logvol / --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=512 --name=rootlv 
logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024 --name=tmplv 
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024 --name=varlv 
logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=optlv 
logvol /home --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=homelv 
logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=usrlv 
logvol /usr/local --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048
--name=locallv 

%packages 

Tried putting the 'ignoredisk' option in order to ignore the sda1 disk
that the USB shows up as, but no luck.  As a side note, the disks on the
HP show up as /dev/cciss/c0d0.

Any input would be appreciated. 

Thanks. 

-- 
sh 

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