Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64156
anaconda exits when specifying disk to partition
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; U;) Gecko/0 Description of problem: When specifying a disk to partition, /dev/sda, anaconda exits. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use bootnet.img (20020117 with or without update.img), use attached ks-bad.cfg 2. # linux apic ks=floppy Actual Results: ananconda dumps to screen when trying to partition the disk. clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 64 --asprimary --ondisk /dev/sda part / --fstype ext3 --size 512 --asprimary --ondisk /dev/sda part swap --size 2048 --asprimary --ondisk /dev/sda part /usr --fstype ext3 --size 2048 --ondisk /dev/sda part /var --fstype ext3 --size 8192 --ondisk /dev/sda part swap --size 2048 --ondisk /dev/sda --ondisk /dev/sda part /home --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk /dev/sda Expected Results: anaconda should partition disk as laid out in ks.cfg Additional info: Also attached is the anaconda-ks.cfg after a cdrom install when I used diskdruid just to make sure the disk was big enough and my partitioning is sane. I'm booting with the apic flag because it's an Intel L440GX+ motherboard.
Created attachment 55504 [details] bad ks.cfg
Created attachment 55505 [details] ks.cfg generated after a cd-rom install
Created attachment 55506 [details] anaconda's dump
Workaround: let anaconda autopartition disk. In my case it uses the 2nd disk it sees for swap and /home, so I have to uninstall my 2nd SCSI disk and remove --ondisk /dev/sda from ks.cfg.
You have --ondisk listed twice for the swap partition, not sure if that makes a difference. Could you try this errata: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2002-016.html It resolved several issues related to ks partitioning.
that second --ondisk is an editting error on my part. I just double checked with the attached ks.cfg (w/o passwords) with both # linux apic ks=floppy and # linux updates apic ks=floppy I've been doing the majority of this trouble shooting with the 20020117 bootnet and update images. I'm also aware of the following when I first started trying to assign partitions. http://www.redhat.com/docs/errata/RHL-7.2-Manual/
Created attachment 55525 [details] ks.cfg from the floppy only passwords removed
It should be --ondisk sda, not --ondisk /dev/sda
sorry for wasting everybody's bandwidth, I'm still think devices start with a /dev. I thought ksconfig would give me a better start than /root/anaconda-ks.cfg; now I see the error of my ways. --clark