Using redhat-8.0, I'm trying to install the /dev/hda disk from an
iso image and accompanying ks.cfg file located on /dev/hda2
I'm getting the cryptic message "hda2 is a protected partition"
in vt3 at the point where the kickstart explodes with a stack trace.
Any ideas what it doesn't like ?
- does the iso image have to be named something in particular ?
- does the iso image need to be mounted, or in a subdir or something ?
My /boot/grub/menu.lst file to call the kickstart looks like:
title kickstart from hda2
root (0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-ks root=/dev/ram devfs=nomount \
ramdisk_size=9216 ks=hd:hda2/ks.cfg
initrd /initrd-ks
(the kernel and initrd mentioned above are from the boot.img floppy
image that came with redhat-8.0, placed manually on hda2)
I can see by looking at /tmp/ks.cfg in the aborted installation
that it's grabbed the ks.cfg file from the top of /dev/hda2, not the
one at the top of the iso image itself.
My ks.cfg file looks as follows:
harddrive --partition=hda2 --dir=/
part / --fstype ext3 --size=5000 --asprimary --ondisk hda --onpart hda1
part /var/tmp/iso --fstype ext3 --size=2000 --asprimary --ondisk hda --onpart hda2 --noformat
part swap --size 1000 --asprimary --ondisk=hda --onpart=hda3
Note that the installation has been previously kickstarted, so the partitions
were present and set up identically with a previous kickstart of the same
contents. I've also commented out all the 'part' lines above and it does
try to kickstart, I'm prompted for the info and when I specify the same info,
it blows up the same way.
Any ideas ???
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