problems with unpartitioned harddrives and automatic partitioning

[Caetano, Greg]

Don't forget the "zerombr" kickstart directive is also available.

 zerombr (optional)

    If zerombr is specified, and yes is its sole argument, any invalid partition tables found on disks are initialized. This destroys all of the contents of disks with invalid partition tables. This command should be in the following format:

    zerombr yes

    No other format is effective.


Greg Caetano
HP TSG Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering
greg.caetano at hp.com
Red Hat Certified Engineer
RHCE#805007310328754
-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eugeny Zadevalov
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:56 AM
To: Shabazian, Chip
Subject: Re: problems with unpartitioned harddrives and automatic partitioning

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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