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Description of problem: When you add an ignoredisk option (ignoredisk --only-use=sda,cciss/c0d0) to a kickstart that also contains "clearpart --all --initlabel", it causes anaconda to fail to skip read-only media (ie, CD-ROM devices) and prompts for human interaction during, which should be, an automated install. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 11.1.2.224 Additional info: It looks like the problem code lives in partedUtils.py: for drive in self.driveList(): # ignoredisk takes precedence over clearpart (#186438). if (DiskSet.exclusiveDisks != [] and drive not in DiskSet.exclusiveDisks) or drive in DiskSet.skippedDisks: continue deviceFile = isys.makeDevInode(drive, "/dev/" + drive) if not isys.mediaPresent(drive) or isys.deviceIsReadOnly(drive): self._removeDisk(drive) continue
Do you still see this problem with RHEL6?
I applied the same change to our RHEL 6 ks environment and I get completely different, yet still broken behavior. In RHEL 6 anaconda dies saying that the system does not have a cciss/c0d0 device. The only major difference between our 5.6 and 6 partitioning sections is the specification of ext4 on RHEL 6 instead of ext3. I'll attach the two partitioning blocks to the bug report.
Created attachment 485807 [details] RHEL 5.6 partitioning config section
Created attachment 485808 [details] RHEL 6 partitioning config section
I have a support ticket open on this issue as well. They asked for the anaconda and syslog files. I'm going to upload them here as well.
Created attachment 486281 [details] anaconda installer log
Created attachment 486282 [details] syslog output from failed 5.6 install
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 700802 ***