FW: Kickstart partition woes

Thu May 27 04:06:38 UTC 2004

Those are the breaks.

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 12:31, Gordon McDowall wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Rick, it is looking more and more like I'm going to
> have to do the partitioning manually, I can still use kickstart and just
> delete the partition section, kickstart then drops you into the manual
> partitioning where I can then label the raid devices accordingly before
> kickstart takes over again.
> Anyway, thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> Sent: 26 May 2004 17:19
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes
> 
> 
> Gordon McDowall wrote:
> > Nope, that's not the issue, I'm, beginning to lose hope :o(
> > I have just about exhausted all different options in the partition
> section.
> > Is there nobody that has tried doing this before, it seems like something
> > that should be easy to do.
> 
> All of my attempts have been stabs in the dark, really, Gordon.  I don't
> do kickstart installs very often.
> 
> It is entirely possible that kickstart doesn't support reusing existing
> software RAID devices without reformatting.  I don't see such a
> restriction in the docs, but that doesn't mean much.  You might try
> checking the bugzilla archives at bugzilla.redhat.com to see if someone
> else has run into this and if there's a fix or work around.  If not,
> you may have to do the thing manually.  I know it's a pain if you're
> doing a network install, but that may be your only recourse.
> 
> Sorry I couldn't help more.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> > Sent: 25 May 2004 17:55
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes
> > 
> > 
> > Gordon McDowall wrote:
> > 
> >>Thanks for the reply, to answer your questions, yes it's software raid and
> >>yes /home was on md3, I cannot see why I should not be able to do this new
> >>install since if you try a manual install then you can see all the
> >>partitions and raid devices and the only thing that needs done is to
> > 
> > relabel
> > 
> >>the raid devices to reflect the partitions and tell it whether to format
> > 
> > the
> > 
> >>raid device or keep the data intact.
> > 
> > 
> > Erp!  I think I found it.  Your lines specifying the RAID layout are
> > missing some stuff.  In your "raid" lines, I think you must have
> > "--fstype=ext3" rather than "--fstype ext3".  This may be an issue as
> > the other partitions are going to be formatted (and ext3 is the default)
> > while /home is NOT going to be formatted.  I'm surprised it worked at
> > all with spaces instead of "=" in those lines.  I'd expect some errors
> > regarding "can't find device ext2" or "can't find device ext3" in the
> > other lines as well.
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> >>Sent: 24 May 2004 18:26
> >>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> >>Subject: Re: FW: Kickstart partition woes
> >>
> >>
> >>Gordon McDowall wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>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
> >>
> >>
> >>So, this is a software RAID?  Which device is /home on under 7.2?  From
> >>your ks.cfg file, I'm guessing it's md3 (raid 05/raid 06).
> >>
> >>I'm not at all certain you can do an upgrade from 7.2 to ES3 on software
> >>RAID without reformatting.  First, that's one hell of a gear change
> >>(jumping three major releases)  Second, the mechanisms used to support
> >>software RAID changed quite a bit over that time.  I think you're going
> >>to have to back up /home to some media somewhere and let the system
> >>format /home to get past that.
> >>
> >>Wish I could help more.
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