Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 43085
RFE: support for block checking and new disk initialization in kickstart
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:30 EDT
In kickstart, if the disk is brand new you have to have a keyboard and a console to tell it to initialize the disklabel. If there was some way of telling kickstart to initialize the disk label it would mean I wouldn't need a console on brand new systems being setup. Additionally it would be nice if I could tag all or certain disks being formatted to be checked for badblocks. So something like zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel part / --size 1024 --badblocks that would actually be quite nice. thanks
Can you attach a copy of the kickstart file that you are using? You are saying that kickstart installs on brand new hard drives require input from the user?
I can send you one but its kinda moot. Its the same as any other. If you have a disk that has NO formatting, no dos label, nada then anaconda will ask you about initializing the disk label before continuning w/the kickstart. the drive related sections: zerombr yes clearpart --all part /boot --size 35 part swap --size 1000 part / --size 4000 part /xtmp --size 1000 --grow lilo --location mbr if the drive has not been formatted or partitioned before it will pop up a box and ask you to initialize or cancel. I think I can get around it with a %pre that calls fdisk and creates a dos label. but thats not very tidy.
Both options have been added to our internal trees and should be present in the next release.