Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but I've tried everything I can think of
here, so any ideas would be much appreciated - here's the problem.
I'm kickstarting a machine with 4 SCSI disks in it. sda and sdb are regular
SCSI disks on an aic79xx - sdc and sdd are both RAID arrays on 3ware Escalades.
I want to leave sdc and sdd alone completely, but anaconda seems to never want
to do that. No matter what I do, I get an error message that it couldn't save
my partition info to sdd or sdc. Here's what I've tried:
The relevant parts of the original ks.cfg looked like this:
#Clear the Master Boot Record
# zerombr yes
#Leave the 3ware disks alone
# clearpart --drives sda,sdb --initlabel
#Disk partitioning information
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 200 --ondisk sda
part swap --size 1024 --ondisk sda
part raid.01 --size 8192 --grow --ondisk sda
part /boot.spare --fstype ext3 --size 200 --ondisk sdb
part swap --size 1024 --ondisk sdb
part raid.02 --size 8192 --grow --ondisk sdb
raid / --level=RAID1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.01 raid.02
Should've worked, I thought, but it didn't. Then I thought, maybe if I ask it
to not partition any disks at all I'll get away with it. So I tried like this:
part /boot --fstype=ext3 --onpart=sda1
part /boot.spare --fstype=ext3 --onpart=sdb1
part swap --onpart=sda2
part swap --onpart=sdb2
part raid.01 --onpart=sda3
part raid.02 --onpart=sdb3
raid / --device=md0 --level=1 --fstype=ext3 raid.01 raid.02
and added the following to my %pre section:
sfdisk -uC /dev/sda << EOF
1,26,83,*
27,131,82
158,,fd
EOF
sfdisk -uC /dev/sdb << EOF
1,26,83,*
27,131,82
158,,fd
EOF
(which partitions the disks fine, BTW)
But still no luck. In desperation, I even tried adding something like:
rmmod 3w-xxxx
rm /dev/sdc* /dev/sdd* /tmp/sdc* /tmp/sdd*
grep -v '^3w' /tmp/scsidisks >/tmp/scsidisks.new
mv /tmp/scsidisks.new /tmp/scsidisks
at the beginning of %pre - but of course, still no luck. /tmp/scsidisks just
gets overwritten anyway.
So I can't seem to find any way to make it leave my sdc and sdd alone, and I'm
out of ideas. Anyone got any pointers?
Thanks!
Mart
