[NCLUG] Question: Fedora 12 Kickstart Wierdness

[Kyle Anderson]

Although I have never used a kickstart to do volume groups, I think I may know
what is going on. Is it possible that it is not clearing the existing partition
table, and adding to it?
You can do this:

clearpart --drives=sda --initlabel

To clear a partition table first. Try that?

Kyle

Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Has anyone encountered problems getting Anaconda to properly read and apply the partitions specified in a kickstart file under Fedora 12? I've been trying variations for days, and it either crashes the installer with an exception, or the few configs I have gotten to work, it simply does the wrong thing. For example, when I have the following lines in my kickstart:
> 
> graphical
> interactive
> install
> zerombr
> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet"
> part /boot      --fstype=ext3 --size=200
> part pv.01      --grow --size=1
> clearpart --all --drives=sda
> volgroup VolGroup --pesize=4096 pv.01
> logvol /        --fstype=ext3 --name=lv_root    --vgname=VolGroup --size=40960
> logvol /scratch --fstype=ext3 --name=lv_scratch --vgname=VolGroup --size=19216
> logvol swap                   --name=lv_swap    --vgname=VolGroup --size=1056
> 
> When I go through the install wizard and check "Review and modify partitioning layout" Anaconda has made a total mess:
> 
> LVM Volume Groups:
>    Vol Group:
>       lv_root / ext3      40969
>       lv_scratch /scratch ext3 19219
>       lv_swap swap 1056
>    VolGroup00:
>       lv_root / ext4      25644
>       lv_swap swap 1056
> Hard Drives:
>    /dev/sda:
>       /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 200
>       /dev/sda2 /boot ext4 200
>       /dev/sda3 physical volume (LVM) 30518
>       /dev/sda4 Extended 30514
>          /dev/sda5 physical (LVM) 26703
> 
> Obviously in my kickstart file I meant to redefine / and /boot as ext3, add a single swap and a new partition called /scratch, but Anaconda does not get it. It creates the default layout, the tacks on my requested partitions, leaving me with everything in duplicate.
> 
> Has anyone run into this problem? Does anyone know of a solution?
> 
> -- Marcio
> 
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