similar to: command in kickstart file to write disklabel?

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

Hello all, I have 3 Supermicro 1u servers, each with dual 250gb SATA drives. I have a server with CentOS 5 64bit setup for pxebooting and kickstart installs. I have a kickstart install file that doesn't specify the disks specifically. It works like a champ, and the operating system installs and completes. I have a kickstart install file that specifies the disk devices (sda,

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 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'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".

Not having much luck googling.... I'm working on our ks.cgi, and in the case that we're using gpt, I know that kickstart can't, natively, use gpt yet. However, it is my impression that clearpart --initlabel --none --drives=$DISK would wipe the GPT label. (Plus, googling, I find that initlabel is deprecated). Am I wrong about initlabel? And is there any point in using clearpart, if

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

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 ? > > >

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone have any thoughts on why anaconda might be prompting me to reinitialize the disk during the kickstart of a Centos6.4 install on hyperV when a) the kickstart file contains "zerombr" as referred to in the installation guide[1] b) installation proceeds with no prompt on KVM hypervisors and succeeds? I have read the release notes[2]/tech

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 consistently with CentOS 7 kickstart is: it > drops me into human decision as far as wiping hard

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

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

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

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

centos-virt, I'm trying to create/install domU guests all in "one" step, following Daniel's wiki page (I've found these pages really helpful, BTW): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU I have a few questions about this process: (1) How would it be modified (w/respect to defining the disk in the domain configuration file) to use a disk layout where dom0

I've previously used includes in CentOS 4.4 and they worked fine. But in CentOS 5.5, trying to specify a driver disk via an include does not work. If I instead specify it directly, it loads fine. When it fails (because it can't see the disk drive - needs the driver disk to see the hard disk), in Console 2 I can see that /tmp/drvdisk exists and has the line I wrote to it. I see nothing

> 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

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

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

Hi All, I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8 When I try to do a completely automated install using PXE/UEFI it get to the point where it reads the kickstart config file. Then I see the following message "kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for nvme0n1" This is what I have in the kickstart file # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr #