problems with unpartitioned harddrives and automatic partitioning

Eugeny Zadevalov lists at zadevalov.com
Thu Feb 14 06:56:26 UTC 2008


Hello Shabazian,

Shabazian, Chip wrote:
> Not sure, but I do --all before --initlabel.  Shouldn't make a
> difference, but I've seen stranger things.

:-) Actually I do --all before --initlabel too, the example I've posted 
in my original e-mail was already from modified ks.cfg where I've tried 
to swap options. It didn't help through. :-(

> 
> The other thing you could probably do is wipe the the partition table in
> %pre:
> 
> set $(list-harddrives)
> cat << EOF >> /tmp/fdisk.input
> w
> 
> EOF
> 
> for i in $d1,$d2,$d3,...(better ways to do this, but this is worth
> starting with); do fdisk $i < /tmp/fdisk.input; done

Well, I know about %pre but I thought here at kickstart maillist there 
are people who knows anaconda source and can maybe look into the code 
and try to fix this issue.




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