Bug 174581 - Bootsector written to device first detected by anaconda, not root-partition chosen by kickstart-option 'part --ondisk'
Summary: Bootsector written to device first detected by anaconda, not root-partition c...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 174580
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-30 13:12 UTC by Christian Horn
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-11-30 15:59:25 UTC
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Description Christian Horn 2005-11-30 13:12:40 UTC
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Description of problem:
A server with fiber-hba (driver lpfc) and hardware-raid (driver cciss) get booted by a kickstart-cd (RHEL3u6) and get installed. The drivers are loaded in that order, via lpfc san-storage gets detected and available as /dev/sda, then the hardware-raid is found.
ks.cfg has 'part / --fstype ext3 --size=1500 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary' and the system gets installed onto the internal disks, however the bootsector gets written to /dev/sda . After reboot system fails in starting the bootloader.
Usage of lilo or grub makes no difference.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot system from kickstart-cd
2.complete networkinstallation
3.reboot system
  

Actual Results:  After reboot system fails in starting the bootloader. System prints the values of cpu-registers and freezes.

Expected Results:  Start of bootloader.

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Workaround:
Configure ks.cfg to use lilo and 'interactive, run installation as usual.
When system is installed and waits for the user to hit return for the final reboot change to console2 (<ALT>+<F2>) and:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
vi etc/lilo.conf # and change '/dev/sda' into '/dev/cciss/c0d0'
sbin/lilo # write correct bootblock

reboot.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2005-11-30 15:59:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174580 ***


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