Forcing a disk rescan after %pre
Eugeny Zadevalov
lists at zadevalov.com
Thu Oct 2 13:46:15 UTC 2008
Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Paul Malinowski wrote:
>
>> Try to use partprobe to re-read available disks/partitions. I'm not
>> sure is it available when %pre script runs, but anaconda does that
>> somehow during the partitioning section so I guess it's possible. In
>> the worst case scenario I would add reboot at the end of creation of
>> raid config in the %pre script - so that it would reboot if change in
>> config occured. I know that its rather a nasty hack, not a proper
>> solution, but please keep in mind that anaconda has some limits.
>
> The reboot is what I am planning to do, but I prefer to look first at a
> better option instead of settling for this because I don't know better :-)
>
> I fear that anaconda's data-structure is not updated and the scan for
> disks has already happened before the %pre. Because after my RAID
> scripts has run, I do have /dev/sda available to the system, but
> anaconda behaves as if there were no disks found.
>
Dag, if you're using "--onbiosdisk=XX" in your "part" anaconda commands
that's the case.
Avoid it and switch to "$(list-harddrives)"+"--ondisk=" method.
Hope that helps,
Thanks!
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