On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:> Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the > beginning of the disk./boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:55:07PM +0100, Always Learning wrote:> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? > > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the > > beginning of the disk. > > /boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MBEven if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 (It's not necessary if you're using MBR, but it isn't clear if that's the case here.) -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Jonathan Billings wrote:> Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, > you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. > > part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1That doesn't sound right. Pure EFI boot, you can just have: part /boot/efi --fstype="efi" Plus whatever volumes (PVs etc.) that you want. Other question mark I'd have over the partitioning is that it's got a separate /usr. part /usr --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=30000 --asprimary Separating off /usr from / is no longer supported AFAIK. jh
On Fri, August 5, 2016 8:11 am, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:55:07PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: >> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >> > Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? >> > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the >> > beginning of the disk. >> >> /boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB > > Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, > you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. > > part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 > > (It's not necessary if you're using MBR, but it isn't clear if that's > the case here.) >Thanks Jonathan! biosboot was exactly that what solved it. I didn't find exact documentation but it sounds like you don't have much of a handle on which disklabel anaconda puts on drive. Cleverly enough it puts gpt (at least on drives larger than 2 TB). Thanks again everybody for all your insights. Here is drive portion of my kickstart file that wipes drive no matter what and puts custom partitioning in case someone some time comes across this thread # System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=sda --append="crashkernel=no rhgb quiet" # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda # Disk partitioning information part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=500 --label=/boot part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=25000 --label=/ part /var --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=3000 --label=/var part /tmp --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=1000 --label=/tmp part swap --fstype="swap" --ondisk=sda --size=4000 part /usr/local --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=20000 --label=/usr/local part /home --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=50000 --label=/home part /data --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=100 --grow --label=/data Thanks again, everybody! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 09:11 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:55:07PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > > > > > Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? > > > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the > > > beginning of the disk. > > > > /boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB > > Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, > you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. > > part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 > > (It's not necessary if you're using MBR, but it isn't clear if that's > the case here.)Thanks for that interesting tip. My GPT disks on C6 don't have it and they boot normally. It seems biosboot is indispensable when booting GPT partitioned disks on older hardware that lacks EFI capability. https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2012-August/msg00005.html It seems the advantage of having a biosboot partition, at the start of the disk, is the disk will successfully boot-up on EFI and on older non-EFI BIOS-only systems. One learns something new almost every day :-) Thank you. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.