similar to: Kickstart install via network, nonexistant disk sda

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 at 02:18 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/21/2016 11:56 PM, Phil Manuel wrote: > > part /boot/efi --fstype="efi" --size=200 --ondisk=sda > > And I have tried the latter with location as mbr still fails > > What am I missing ? > > > I very vaguely remember struggling with this as well, but I can't find

Does anyone know how anaconda partitioning enumerates disk partitions when specified in kickstart? I quickly browsed through the anaconda installer source on github but didn't see the relevant bits. I'm using the centOS 6.10 anaconda installer. Somehow I am ending up with my swap partition on sda1, /boot on sda2, and root on sda3. for $REASONS I want /boot to be the partition #1 (sda1)

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 at 12:51 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/19/2016 11:35 PM, Phil Manuel wrote: > > The install fails under UEFi due to the fact the partitions are not > cleared, and it doesn?t have any space to continue. Is there an extra step > I need to do to remove the original partitions before the new layout will > work ? > > >

I'm using the kickstart file we developed for v5 on 6.2 in VM (kvm/qemu running on a CentOS 5.6), but it fails: Error partitioning. Could not allocate requested partitions: not enough free space on disks. There's nothing wrong with the disk. Both fdisk and parted works fine, I can view, partition and write a partition table and the disk is 10.5GB. However, looking through

I have 2 questions dealing with 2 different kickstart files. 1) my kickstart sections for RAID disk setup and kickstart reports it cannot find sda. Why is that. sda is there and works. clearpart --all --initlabel part raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="raid" --onpart=sda1 --size=20000 part swap --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap"

Hi, I have a test system that booted fine using "Legacy Bios? mode and using the following Kickstart snippet configured the disks correctly:- # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel # Disk partitioning information part raid.01 --fstype="raid" --ondisk=sda --size=500 part raid.02 --fstype="raid" --grow

On Thu, August 4, 2016 7:13 pm, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > >> Dear Experts, >> >> Could somebody point to kicstart HOWTO specific for CentOS 7? >> >> On CentOS 7 I somehow am always given human intervention questions >> about drive which defeats unattended ks install. >> >> At least one snag I hit

This is what I have for configuring software raid on sata drives in my kickstart config <snip kickstart.cfg> clearpart --initlabel --all part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sdb part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda part raid.01 --size=101 --ondisk=sda part raid.02 --size=101 --ondisk=sdb part raid.04 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sdb part raid.03 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sda raid / --fstype ext3

Hello. A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks with two software raid1 partitions as follows: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0] 933448704 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda2[2](F) 40957568 blocks [2/1] [_U] Now the drives are starting to be failing and next week

Hi, We dont run DHCP in our environment where I build our servers, is it required to get a first IP address to hit my kickstart server running on my xandros debian laptop? Just been a couple years since I last did some kickstart builds and I dont have system-config-kickstart running on a machine here in my home lab. I can turn on DHCP on my linux laptop perhaps, but just wanted to check in

Hi, I am struggling with kickstart. What I want to achieve is a reinstall, but some data partitions should survive the install, i.e. they should not be formatted. With a single disk this works, here is the relevant part from the kickstart file (I shortened the name of the volume group) ... zerombr clearpart --none --initlabel part /boot --fstype="xfs" --label=boot --onpart=vda1 part

I am testing some kickstarts on ESXi virtual machine with pair of 16GB disks. Partitioning is lvm over raid. If i am using "logvol --grow i get "ValueError: not enough free space in volume group" Only workaround i can find is to add --maxsize=XXX where XXX is at least 640MB less than available. (10 extents or 320Mb per created logical volume) Following snippet is failing with

> On 28 Aug 2016, at 10:04 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Gordon Messmer > <gordon.messmer at gmail.com <mailto:gordon.messmer at gmail.com>> wrote: >> On 08/25/2016 11:35 PM, Phil Manuel wrote: >>> >>> The relevant kickstart section is:- >>> >>> part /boot/efi

I'm testing doing kickstart installations on Xen VMs. This is the first time I'm trying out kickstart at all, so I rather think I'm doing something wrong in the kickstart configuration than it is a Xen issue. I use a modified kickstart file from an earlier manual installation with a very basic filesystem setup. It fails with "SystemError: vgcreate failed for VolGroup00".

hi, The problem: for kvm/qemu disks are /dev/vdx devices when using the virtio driver. For vmware, drives are /dev/sdx devices. For hp servers, /dev/ccisss/whatever (sorry, no proliant with an array controller handy to check it). in order to just have one kickstart script to maintain I am trying to use the %pre section but getting a bit stuck. This is what I have: %pre if [ -b /dev/sda ] then

I am trying to add an efi partition to my working kickstart file. bootloader --driveorder=sda --append="rhgb quiet biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" clearpart --all --initlabel part / --ondisk=sda --fstype xfs --size=20000 --asprimary part swap --ondisk=sda --size=4000 --asprimary part /boot/efi --ondisk=sda --fstype efi --size=1000 --asprimary part /home --ondisk=sda

When I use my kickstart file (which works on 5.1 x86_64) with 5.2 I get the following error. I put my kickstart file at the end. Do I have something incomaptible in the file? jerry -------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call first): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py", line 341, in lookupHostname ret = isys.pumpNetDevice(dev.get('device'),

As I understand anaconda uses parted to partition (starting from centos 6), using this as example (kickstart configuration file): clearpart --all --drives=sda --initlabel part /boot --asprimary --size=200 --fstype=ext2 --ondisk=sda part swap --asprimary --size=16384 --fstype=swap --ondisk=sda part / --asprimary --size=512000 --fstype=ext4 --ondisk=sda part /scratch --asprimary --size=1 --grow

Hello all, I've been struggling with an issue with my kickstart configuration for a while now. My kickstart files are stored within the initrd image. What I would like to do here, is when the kickstart first starts up, I want it to grab a DHCP address (it does at the moment) so it can grab all of the necessary installation data off the net. Then, at some point _IN_ the install process, I'd

Hello, I've been trying to kickstart a install centos from a USB memory stick. Everything with that is working fine, but I seem to be having a problem with the ks.cfg file. When I boot the install media from the usb drive, the the boot prompt I type linux ks=hd:/dev/uba1/ks.cfg Then I peek at the logs and it even says * getting kickstart file * getting kickstart file from harddrive *