Description of problem: A new --only-use option was added to the kickstart ignoredisk command for bug 318351, however, this new option is not documented in the Installation Guide. This option tells anaconda to only use the specified disk(s), e.g. ignoredisk --only-use=sda http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html
See bug 586576 for corresponding documentation in /usr/share/doc/anaconda-*/kickstart-docs.txt
Created attachment 426738 [details] patch for Kickstart2.xml patch for Kickstart2.xml
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Thanks Jason for the patch. Fixed in build 3.1-9: ===================== ignoredisk (optional) Causes the installer to ignore the specified disks. This is useful if you use autopartition and want to be sure that some disks are ignored. For example, without ignoredisk, attempting to deploy on a SAN-cluster the kickstart would fail, as the installer detects passive paths to the SAN that return no partition table. The --only-use option specifies that only the disks listed will be used during installion. The ignoredisk option is also useful if you have multiple paths to your disks. The syntax is: ignoredisk --drives=drive1,drive2,... where driveN is one of sda, sdb,..., hda,... etc. * --only-use — specifies a list of disks for the installer to use. All other disks are ignored. For example, to use disk sda during installation and ignore all other disks: ignoredisk --only-use=sda
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