How do I force Anaconda to not install a bootloader?
Brian Schau
brian.schau at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 15:38:51 UTC 2005
Hello,
Why doesn't kickstart honour the "bootloader --location=none" switch on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS?
Background. I have created a kickstart script which I will use to setup
a lot of servers. The servers runs software raid (level 1) and LVM so
I cannot use the default anaconda way of installing a boot loader.
So I roll my own setup in the %post section of the kickstart script.
The setup have been tested and found to work. I then supply the
bootloader --location=none
switch in my kickstart script so that no bootloader is installed.
(see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html)
Yet, when I execute the kickstart installation, after the post phase,
I see a dialog stating, that the boot loader is installed.
When I reboot the server I end up in the grub shell. If I manually
boot the server and check the anaconda-ks.cfg file I see:
bootloader --location=partition
... which isn't what I asked for.
So - how do I tell anaconda _not_ to install a bootloader?
Kind regards,
Brian
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