Bug 805375

Summary: install should not fail if the disk to ignore is not present.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Marco Grigull <mgrigull>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Version: 6.2   
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Description Marco Grigull 2012-03-21 04:02:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
the anaconda install can abort if it cannot find the disk it is supposed ti ignore.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.2 release

How reproducible:
anytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add the following to kickstart:
ignoredisk --drives=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-360080e50002d1e68000001ad4f684d2a
2.kickstart the target.  Disk should not be visible for part or all of the install
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Actual results:
see attached picture


Expected results:
installer resumes, and leaves the missing disk alone.

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Comment 1 Marco Grigull 2012-03-21 04:03:10 UTC 
Created attachment 571589 [details]
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Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2012-03-27 20:29:09 UTC 
We are taking a much more strict approach to kickstart file validation these days, and that includes throwing out files with incorrect information in them.  You can always generate the ignoredisk line via a %pre script if you need it to exist on some systems and not on others.