Well it appears that it does work with and without the numbering option. I was basing the fact that this method didn't work on the output of the dumphdrlist.py, a script from Jeremy Katz of RH. I looked at it and it sorts the results which was throwing me off. My installed are working once again. Thanks, Marc Mondragon On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 11:00, anaconda-devel-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:43:39 +0200 > From: Uwe Beck <ubeck@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: RHEL 3 genhdlist problems > To: anaconda-devel-list <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <414757FB.9C9AE2AC@xxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello, > > Marcos A. Mondragon wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I initially noticed that my installs were breaking due to the grub install failing. After > > searching Google and the Red Hat mailing lists I saw a mention of a similar grub problem > > which led me to this list and the message below. Searching some more I found some info > > that pointed me to this solution to the hdlist being in alphabetical order: > > > > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda > > rhroot=/some/nifty/place > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist $rhroot > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $rhroot i386 > $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder $rhroot > > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers $rhroot > usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/pkgorder $rhroot i386 > $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder > /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --withnumbers --fileorder $rhroot/RedHat/base/pkgorder $rhroot > > With the genhdlist option "--withnumbers" it works in this order of comands for me. > > > Thanks, > > > > Marc Mondragon > > Uwe > -- Marc Mondragon Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. 2100 Enterprise Avenue Geneva, IL 60134 marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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