Bug 847162

Summary:	anaconda generated kickstart with imsm raid fails to parse
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Scott Johnson <scottej23>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, g.kaviyarasu, jacobh, jonathan, scottej23, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Scott Johnson 2012-08-09 23:33:23 UTC

Description of problem:

The F17 installation with Intel IMSM (BIOS) fake-raid worked successfully.  But when taking the generated /root/anaconda-ks.cfg, uncommenting the raid and part lines, and attempting a kickstart installation, anaconda failed with a parse error.

The related kickstart lines are:
(line21) raid  --level=container --device=md127 --useexisting --noformat raid.008000 raid.008016
(line22) raid  --level=1 --device=md126 --useexisting --noformat raid.009127

The parse error in the /tmp/anaconda.log:
13:16:23,402 CRIT anaconda.stderr: The following error was found while parsing the kickstart configuration file:
The following problem occurred on line 21 of the kickstart file:
Members may not be specified for preexisting RAID device

Looking at the pykickstart raid.py code I was able to see that it was expecting a mount point even though it doesn't make sense for pre-existing raid.  I also had to remove the raid.* partitions from the kickstart lines.

These modified lines seemed to work fine for me in the kickstart config:
raid / --level=container --device=md127 --useexisting --noformat
raid / --level=1 --device=md126 --useexisting --noformat

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