Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58182
kickstart fails when partitions are specified with cylinders
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:57 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: I have 30 systems with Windows XP on them. Am trying to install RH7.2 via Kickstart. Installed on test system from CD. Generated base ks.cfg via ksconfig, modified partitioning scheme based on existing cylinders values from fdisk. All the disks in the 30 systems are identical. Anaconda complains that not enough disk space has been allocated for root, boot, swap, and var partitions. Is there a way to turn off the space requirement verification. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from cd with "linux ks" 2.dhcp succeeds, nfs directory mounted 3.anaconda starts 4.successful probes for video, monitor and mouse 5.Error message on partion not being created. 6.On tty3 - the error messages talk about swap being 0 and root is less than 250MB Actual Results: system prompts for reboot Expected Results: disks should be partitioned and package install should proceed Additional info: =====ks.cfg===== lang en_US langsupport en_US keyboard us mouse logimmanps/2 timezone --utc America/New_York rootpw --iscrypted $1$MUmQFUQN$e56CS/MfW.jzKMrnJ29If/ reboot text bootloader --location=mbr install nfs --server 10.10.0.1 --dir /usr/local/archive/redhat/ zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel drives=hda part /boot --fstype ext3 --ondisk hda --start 1 --end 13 part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk hda --start 14 --end 395 part /var --fstype ext3 --ondisk hda --start 396 --end 522 part swap --fstype swap --ondisk hda --start 523 --end 652 part /opt --fstype ext3 --ondisk hda --start 653 --end 4865 network --bootproto dhcp auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain endlab-cluster --nisserver 10.10.0.1 firewall --disabled skipx #xconfig --depth 16 --resolution 1024x768 --defaultdesktop=GNOME --card "Matrox Millennium G450" --monitor "GDM-5402" %packages ==== fdisk output from cd install==== Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 395 3068415 83 Linux /dev/hda3 396 522 1020127+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 523 4865 34885147+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 523 652 1044193+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 653 4865 33840891 83 Linux
The error seems to be comming from the following in partitioning.py It looks like partitioning specified with cylinders does not calculate the space realized hence the routine fails on all checks. (line 562 in J. Katz's modified partioning.py as posted on the web. same section exists in the cdrom rpm.) # this function is called at the end of partitioning so that we # can make sure you don't have anything silly (like no /, a really small /, # etc). returns (errors, warnings) where each is a list of strings or None # if there are none # if baseChecks is set, the basic sanity tests which the UI runs prior to # accepting a partition will be run on the requests def sanityCheckAllRequests(requests, diskset, baseChecks = 0): checkSizes = [('/usr', 250), ('/tmp', 50), ('/var', 50), ('/home', 100), ('/boot', 20)] warnings = [] errors = []
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55138 ***