From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 Description of problem: My situation: I have PC's with 1 internal IDE hard drive w/Windows 2000 and 1 external SCSI hard drive used for RH. These are machines at my work which we want to set up for dual-booting. The idea is to install RH on the external SCSI using kickstart and not touch a thing on the internal IDE drive (no bootloader installed since we plan to use Windows bootloader). The problem: When kickstarting RH8, all the partitions on the internal IDE drive get wiped out, thus killing off Win2K. However, when kickstarting RH9, everything works perfect - RH get loaded, Win2K stays intact. I have both configuration files setup the same way (except for indiviual packages). Here is a quick snip of the relevant lines from the config: <snip> bootloader --location=partition #zerombr clearpart --drives sda --initlabel part / --fstype ext2 --size=4096 --ondisk=sda part swap --size=1024 --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype ext2 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda </snip> As you can see, the clearpart and part commands always specify the SCSI device. But the IDE partitions get wiped out as well under RH8. Again, RH9 works fine. I have not tried other versions. Also, I have tried both "clearpart --drives=sda" and "clearpart --drives sda" with same result. So, you say, "why don't you use RH9?". Unforunately, RH8 is the current requirement. Please help! Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.setup kickstart to load RH8 on secondary device 2. 3. Additional info:
This is fixed in RHL 9. We do not in general backport fixes to previous RHL releases.