Description of problem: I'm trying to kickstart F7T2 by booting off the F7T2 DVD, with my ks.cfg file on a floppy. Anaconda silently fails to partition my disk, and not surprisingly installation later fails when it can't mount any partitions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-kickstart-2.7.2-1.fc7.noarch.rpm anaconda-11.2.0.26-1.i386.rpm anaconda-runtime-11.2.0.26-1.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create ks.cfg using system-config-kickstart. 2. Boot system off F7T2 DVD, use 'linux ks=floppy' at the boot: prompt Actual results: Installation starts, but eventually stops with the error "An error occurred trying to initialize swap on device sda2. This problem is serious, and the install cannot continue." Hitting Alt-F5 shows a console with the message, "/tmp/sda2: No such device or address" After the error appears, 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' (run from the shell in Alt-F2) shows no partitions at all on the disk. From the shell, partitioning the disk by hand seems to work correctly. Expected results: Disk is partitioned correctly, kickstart installation completes normally. Additional info: My system is a development board with an AMD Geode LX 800. The disk is a 1.8" IDE disk (Toshiba MK2004GAL). We use the system for kickstarting FC4 with no trouble. Interactive installation works fine, it seems like just kickstart installs are broken. I've seen this problem in qemu as well. Qemu lets you use a raw disk (launch with '-hda /dev/sdb') or a disk image; the problem occurs with both raw disk and the image.
Created attachment 150162 [details] Anaconda log from failed installation
Created attachment 150163 [details] syslog
Created attachment 150164 [details] kickstart file Kickstart file with root password removed. I've tried a number of different combinations of use existing partitions/create new ones, clobber/don't clobber the MBR, etc. None of them have made a difference. Removing the swap partition (so it's just / and /boot) doesn't make a difference.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232936 ***