Sorry that was the mkdev.cciss script from the kernel source.. and that
didn't make a difference either. Something else, most likely
loader/anaconda is checking to see if those are real disk devices..
Is there any point at which loader.c passes the argument to anaconda that
no valid disks where found?
Clearly the device is configured properly.. Even after %pre runs, I can
fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d0 and create/format partitions. My next step is to
turn of the checkNodisk function in partitioning.py.
If I can partition the disks with fdisk, why is anaconda telling me there
are no valid disks? That makes absolutely no sense.
James
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent by: anaconda-devel-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
03/11/2004 09:46 AM
To: anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
cc:
Subject: Re: partitioning in %pre
I have a hunch there is a script that is mknodding those device names... I
pulled the mknod.sh from the kernel source, and I'm going to try to get
that running in %pre and see if it works from there. I'll also log all of
this stuff..
James
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
Brian Harvell <harvell@xxxxxxx>
03/11/2004 12:09 AM
Please respond to Brian Harvell
To: James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: partitioning in %pre
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Who likes a good mystery? Compaq makes a tool, cpqacuxe (Compaq Array
> Configuration Utility) that is a linux executable. This tool can
> configure a hardware RAID controller based on the input from a text
file.
> I have the tool working in the %pre environment and it does indeed send
> the hardware RAID config to the cciss controller. Here's two cases,
one
> which works (manual), one which doesn't (automatic). Both are
kickstarts.
I know it should work, I use a %pre script to do some dynamic partition
sizes
that I then %include. I would try changing your %pre to the following to
see if
you can get any error message.
%pre
# Spawn a sub-shell so we can log everything
(
set -x
echo "begin raid flash"
mkdir /mnt/cd
echo "mounting cd to /mnt/cd"
mount /tmp/cdrom /mnt/cd
echo "making dir /dev/cciss"
mkdir /dev/cciss
echo "mknodding /dev/cciss/c*d0"
mknod /dev/cciss/c0d0 b 104 0
echo "setting password for cpqacufe"
echo -n -e "password\npassword\n"|cpqacuxe
echo "importing array config"
cpqacuxe -i /mnt/cd/custom/files/seahawk.array
) >> /tmp/pre.log 2>&1
Let me know if you get it working, I have been looking to do the same
thing
with cpqacuxe.
Brian
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