Bug 443372
| Summary: | installation is asking about GPT partition table even with kickstart | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Alexander Todorov <atodorov> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 4.7 | CC: | rwilliam |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-04-21 12:06:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The message is:
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| /dev/sda contains GPT signatures, indicating |
| that it has a GPT table. However, it does not |
| have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it |
| should. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by |
| a program that doesn't understand GPT partition |
| tables. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, |
| and are now using an msdos partition table. Is |
| this a GPT partition table? |
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| +-----+ +----+ |
| | Yes | | No | |
| +-----+ +----+ |
This is a parted message. It pretty much describes what is happening. Anaconda ignoring this messages would be the right thing to do when "clearpart --initlabel --all" is passed, looking into this. (In reply to comment #2) > KATE result (with complete ks.cfg) > > http://hank.test.redhat.com/kate/auto.cgi?action=case&group=RHEL4-U7-re20080418.0-ia64&case=uninitialized_disks-AS-releng-french-nfsiso-VNC This is related to 220161. The fixed has already been commited. commit f7c12c05bf23d7d0a38cde184a633e978fcd1824 Guess it will appear in 10.1.1.87 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188579 *** We need to see log files from this once the traceback has been fixed. |
Description of problem: On uninitialized disk the installer is asking the user if the disk has a GPT partition table or not. The kickstart has: bootloader #zerombr is off clearpart --initlabel --all autopart %pre exec &>/tmp/kate-sda.out test -b /dev/sda || mknod /dev/sda if ! test -b /dev/sda; then echo Unable to find/create device for sda touch /tmp/fail fi if ! dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1; then echo Unable to clear beginning of sda touch /tmp/fail fi Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.1.86-1 How reproducible: Not sure. Seen for the first time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install with the ks.cfg snippet above Actual results: Installer is asking the user to provide information Expected results: The installer should not ask the user for that info. ks.cfg has "clearpart --initlabel --all" and it should initialize all disks. Additional info: