Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 17989
"/" put on wrong part of disk, lilo/boot fails
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:58 EDT
Relevant part of the kickstart config file: clearpart --all zerombr yes part / --size=256 --ondisk=sda part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part /usr --size=2024 --ondisk=sda part /var --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part /tmp --size=512 --ondisk=sda part /home --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part /opt --size=1024 --ondisk=sda --grow part /opt/content --ondisk=sdb --grow What I get is an sda ordered by what looks like reverse size order. /usr appears first, and so on, down to / on sda8, which is also at the very end of the disk. lilo complains about this and RHL fails to boot. Harware in question: VA Linux box On-board Adaptec controller Two 18G UltraSCSI drives. What gives? - Marc David Rovner [ ] ( ) / \ . com
Brock please verify.
verified this behavior in both 6.2 & 7 ... thanks for your report!
Based on some readin via Deja, it appears anaconda uses a reverse disk size sorting (takes biggest parition first and lays it down). the deja article that talks about how to get around this using --grow and --maxsize: http://x66.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=607131878&CONTEXT=981352670.1271201875&hitnum=1 Still haven't found a way to get around the problem reported in bugs 11698/20221
I believe I have fixed this - a quick test showed that '/' is now put first.