Kickstart partition woes

[Gordon McDowall]

Thanks, but I don't think that is what I need, perhaps I did not explain
very well

I have an existing RH 7.2 box and want to keep the partitions the way they
are set up, I want to format mdo which is the /boot partition, format md1
which is the / partition, format md2 which is the var partition but keep the
data on md3 which is the home partition.
If you run a manual build then it works, but copying and pasting the
partitions from the kickstart that anaconda produces gives the error below
as does the partition info I have mentioned previously, even though I state
the name of the raid device I want to use on the home partition I always get
the error "unable to locate raid device None for use in /home"
I have tried just about everything and I am running out of ideas.





-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com
[mailto:Thomas.vonSteiger at swisscom.com]
Sent: 24 May 2004 15:25
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Kickstart partition woes


Hello,

I do this with RHAS3.0 and it works well:

part raid.15 --size 100 --ondisk sda 
part raid.20 --size 2000 --ondisk sda 
part raid.19 --size 2000 --ondisk sda 
part raid.21 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sda 
part raid.26 --size 100 --ondisk sdb 
part raid.24 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb 
part raid.23 --size 2000 --ondisk sdb 
part raid.25 --size 100 --grow --ondisk sdb 
raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.15 raid.26 
raid swap --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype swap raid.20 raid.24 
raid / --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.19 raid.23 
raid pv.38 --level=1 --device=md3 raid.21 raid.25 
volgroup rhvg pv.38 
logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --name=optlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 
logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=homelv --vgname=rhvg --size=1000 
logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=usrlv --vgname=rhvg --size=2000 
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=varlv --vgname=rhvg --size=500 


regards,
Thomas


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gordon
McDowall
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:15 PM
To: 'redhat-install-list at redhat.com'
Subject: FW: Kickstart partition woes

Hi

I recently sent the following email to the general Redhat list but got
no
reply, I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to help
out...please!

I am currently trying to upgrade a server from Redhat 7.2 to Redhat
Enterprise 3.0, the server is running raid and I would like to keep the
/home partition intact and basically do a full install on the remaining
/
/boot and /var partitions.   When I try the install it always errors out
with the error "unable to locate raid device None for /home" but as far
as I
can see the partition section of the kickstart file is fine, does anyone
have any suggestions as to what may be the issue.
Here is a copy of the partition section of the ks.cfg file

#Disk partitioning information
part raid.01 --onpart sda1
part raid.03 --onpart sda2
part swap --onpart sda3
part raid.05 --onpart sda6 --noformat
part raid.07 --onpart sda5
part raid.02 --onpart sdb1
part raid.04 --onpart sdb2
part swap --onpart sdb3
part raid.06 --onpart sdb6 --noformat
part raid.08 --onpart sdb5
raid /boot --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext2 raid.01 raid.02
raid / --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04
raid /var --level=1 --device=md2 --fstype ext3 raid.07 raid.08
raid /home --level=1 --device=md3 --fstype ext3 --noformat raid.05
raid.06


Thanks, any suggestions appreciated

Gordon McDowall


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