RE: RHEL5 kickstart overwrites USB

["Shabazian, Chip" <Chip.Shabazian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RHEL5 kickstart overwrites USB

Are you sure the system is seeing the USB as sd(a,b,c)1?  Add a sleep to your %pre, get a shell, and take a look.

 

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From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hajducko, Steven
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 3:47 PM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RHEL5 kickstart overwrites USB

 

Hi,

So we're running into a strange issue where a kickstart from a USB/CDROM combo on an HP DL385 G5 system is actually installing and reformatting the USB stick.

We place the kickstart file on the USB drive, drop in a RHEL5 DVD and run:

linux ks=hd:sda1:/hostname.cfg

The installation goes fine and our packages are installed, but upon reboot and examining the USB stick, it has been reformatted to ext3 FS and contains :

stha3155@ghost:/media/usb$ ls
config-2.6.18-8.el5  grub  initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img  lost+found  symvers-2.6.18-8.el5.gz  System.map-2.6.18-8.el5  vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5

Upon reboot of the system, it crashes with a bunch of OPCODE errors.

The relevant part of our kickstart looks like this ( we don't do anything tricky in our packages or post install, just touch a few config files.. )

install
cdrom
lang en_US
langsupport --default=en_US en_US
keyboard us
skipx
text
ignoredisk --drives=sda1,sdb1,sdc1
network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.27.17 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --hostname hostname.domain.com
network --device eth1 --onboot no
rootpw --iscrypted #####
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/Los_Angeles
selinux --disabled
zerombr yes
bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet"
reboot
clearpart --all
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 --asprimary
part swap --size=6912 --asprimary
part pv.01 --size=100 --grow
volgroup rootvg pv.01
logvol / --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=512 --name=rootlv
logvol /tmp --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024 --name=tmplv
logvol /var --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=1024 --name=varlv
logvol /opt --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=optlv
logvol /home --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=homelv
logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=usrlv
logvol /usr/local --fstype ext3 --vgname=rootvg --size=2048 --name=locallv

%packages

Tried putting the 'ignoredisk' option in order to ignore the sda1 disk that the USB shows up as, but no luck.  As a side note, the disks on the HP show up as /dev/cciss/c0d0.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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sh

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