Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 251318
bad size parsing in part
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:46 EST
Description of problem: while this line cause an error "requires size specification" part / --fstype ext3 --onbiosdisk --size=1 --grow this line runs without problem: part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=sda --size=1 --grow imho it's a bug! on the other hand if in part you can include --onbiosdisk it'd be very useful (since imho otherwise it's unusable) to include --onbiosdisk in clearpart too. currently there is no way to clear all partition on the bios disk and create partition on it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
What's going on here is that --onbiosdisk requires an argument to tell it which BIOS disk to put the partition on (something like 0x80, ... I believe). However, our option parsing does not handle the missing required argument correctly so it's giving you a partitioning error instead of a syntax error when reading the kickstart file. This will be fixed in the next version pykickstart in devel, and in the next major release of RHEL. If you require this fix in an update release of RHEL, please contact your support representative who will raise this issue through the appropriate channels.
how do you know about that param and it's format? i can't find any info about it:-(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AnacondaKickstart