Hi Can you post the kickstart file's contents. That may give some clue John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles, Paul" <Paul.Miles@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:09 PM Subject: Software RAID and anaconda > Hello, > > We're using custom kickstarts to install to HP DL140 servers. Since > these servers have 2 IDE hard drives, we're using RAID 1 software raid > to configure them. > > The actual raid configuration works perfectly, the systems install, > although very slowly. > > I tracked the slowness problem to the fact that anaconda appears to be > automatically rebuilding the RAID array on each install. I've tried > trashing the MBR (ie, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=512; dd > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1k count=512) and this seems to perfectly > remove the partition table information as shown by fdisk -l but yet > still as soon as anaconda makes the partitions during the kickstart, the > RAID rebuilding kicks off again. > > Vital statistics : > > Fedora core 3 > HP Dl140 - xeon processor > 1GB ram > 2 x IDE hard drives > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received, > > Paul > This e-mail is the property of Quadriga Worldwide Ltd > The message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of > the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information > that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If > you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated > with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message > and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from us may be > monitored. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or > error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, > arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept > responsibility for any errors or omissions that are present in this > message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail > transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy > version. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and > do not necessarily represent those of the company. > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > -- > This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. > For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/ > -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/
