Description of problem: unattended kickstart install prompts with 'The partition table on device %s was unreadable.' even though clearpart --all --initlabel was specified How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Zero out disk partition table 2. attempt kickstart Actual results: Error prompt Expected results: initialize partition table automatically. Additional info: I believe the source of this bug is in the following code: (partedUtils.py) def _askForLabelPermission(self, intf, drive, clearDevs, initAll, ks): [.....] if ks and (drive in clearDevs) and initAll: rc = 1 else: [.....] msg = _("The partition table on device %s was unreadable. " It's checking 'clearDevs' (which can be specified with clearpart --drives=xxx) but ignoring the fact that --all was specified. I believe the fix would be: if ks and ((drive in clearDevs) or initAll):
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This still happens on RHEL 5.5 with Anaconda 11.1.2.209-1. The fix suggested by the original reporter works fine. Deploying RHEL automatically via PXE/Kickstart is impossible unless all the machines to be deployed have the same number of disks so they can be specified in ks.cfg's clearpart command, or unless the following is done on the repository: # mkdir stage2-ro # mkdir stage2-rw # mount -o loop images/stage2.img stage2-ro # cp -a stage2-ro stage2-rw # umount stage2-ro # rm stage2-rw/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.pyc # vi stage2-rw/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py #and patch according to comment #0. # mv images/stage2.img images/stage2.img.broken # mksquashfs stage2-rw images/stage2.img