Description of problem: There is an undocumented option(BZ 164787) called "ignoredisk --drives=sdb,sdc" that can be passed in a KS file to ignore everything regarding the concerned devices, which works well, excepted regarding the --initlabel option which tries to initialize all drives visible to the machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.1.37 How reproducible: create a KS file with the options indicated above in it, and try to install RHEL4 U3 on a brand new harddisk. The page regarding the initialization of the drives which should be ignored come up for the ignored listed devices, but should not. Additional info: It seems that the openDevices function in partedUtils.py is responsible of this issue: def openDevices (self, intf = None, initAll = 0, zeroMbr = 0, clearDevs = []): """Open the disks on the system and skip unopenable devices.""" if self.disks: return for drive in self.driveList (): if drive in DiskSet.skippedDisks and not initAll: continue deviceFile = isys.makeDevInode(drive) I replaced the 3 last lines above with: if drive in DiskSet.skippedDisks and initAll: DiskSet.skippedDisks.append(drive) continue deviceFile = isys.makeDevInode(drive) It seems to fix the problem, but maybe I am wrong somewhere.
Fixed in Rawhide and will be in RHEL5. If you need a fix for this in an update release, we'll need to go through the procedure for getting it on the list for U5.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198525 ***
Committed a fix to the RHEL4 branch.
While a fix was committed to CVS, it was not built in brew and thus did not make it into RHEL 4.5. Moved to 4.6 since it is too late to resolve in 4.5.
should be fixed in anaconda-10.1.1.63-4 .
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0215.html