Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75675
anaconda crashes with partition options: --ondisk=sda or --ondisk=sdb
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:27 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: The 7.3 Customization Documentation suggests using "sdb" here; however, this crashes anaconda with a KeyError: "sdb". Looking at the resulting kickstart file from a manual install, it suggests that the proper option usage fragment is: --ondisk=ida/c0d0 --ondisk=ida/c0d1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up otherwise valid Kickstart file on floppy as ks.cfg 2. Use part keyword with --ondisk=sdb and/or --ondisk=sda 3. Boot with ks=floppy Actual Results: Anaconda runs, checks video, then gives a backtrace. Expected Results: Partitions should have been cleared and then created on the first and second SCSI devices - which are (or were) /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Documentation should not suggest using --ondisk=sdb if that is no longer supported. Documentation also suggests --onpart hda1; this is likely also to be wrong. Additional info: Looking in the install environment for: /dev/hd[ab] /dev/sd[ab] /dev/ida/c[0-9]d[0-9] was no help as these do not exist...
The device to specify depends on the hardware layout on your system. The customization guide provides a starting off point and cannot possibly catalogue all possible combinations of hardware. Unfortunately, the Compaq SmartArray devices do not fit into the same sd[abc] scheme as most other SCSI devices, instead using their own /dev/ida/c0d0 or /dev/cciss/c0d0 scheme