From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: If I use clearpart --all --initlabel and have the partition table change in the partition section from what it was previously, various errors occur. These may include telling you some partitions are too small, swap errors, etc. Rebooting and starting again will clear up the errors. It would appear that kernel doesn't realize the partitions have changed and is still using the old information. Simply removing the --initlabel flag will clear up this problem, but then you may get asked questions during the install which is also not desireable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-7.3-14.WS How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install AW2.1 via kickstart using some partition table 2. Rebuild using the same process, use --initlabel, change the partition table 3. Various errors pop up during the install regarding partitions too small, couldn't initialize swap, etc. Actual Results: Install halts looking for interaction Expected Results: Completely unattended installs. Additional info: This only seems to happen on ia64. I do not have similar results on ia32.
This seems fine on newer code. The simple workaround for 2.1 is to not do that (if you need to initialize, you can do a dd in your %pre)
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