Old style fixed partitions in KS-- Anaconda bug??

Cris Rhea crhea at mayo.edu
Thu Feb 7 17:43:04 UTC 2008


> From: "Landreth, Kevin" <klandreth at theplanet.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:58:27 -0600
> Subject: RE: Old style fixed partitions in KS-- Anaconda bug??
> 
> After sfdisk, do blockdev --rereadpt <dev> or partprobe <dev>  to force
> the kernel to understand that the disk layout has changed.  Once for
> each disk.
> 
> Let us know if that helps :)
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> Kevin Landreth, RHCE
> Technology Architect 

Same result... 

I don't think there is really an issue between the disks
and the kernel-- I think Anaconda itself is confused...

Thanks for the suggestion.

(Hadn't seen the "blockdev" command before... cool...)

--- Cris

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