You might try doing a `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1b count=1` and then rebooting, to zero out the partition table. It sounds like there's a conflict between the kernels' view of the partition table and the subsequent repartitioning of the drive. Hope that helps. -dwight- On Monday 04 February 2008 01:43:32 pm Cris Rhea wrote: > I'm trying to lay out disk partitions in a certain way-- > This has worked for years, but recently broke due either to > a change in the way Kickstart works or a bug in Anaconda. > > I use sfdisk to lay out the drive in the %pre section: > > %pre > > sfdisk -uM /dev/sda <<EOF > ,150,L > ,,E > ; > ; > ,512,L > ,2048,S > ,6000,L > ,2048,L > ,10000,L > ,,L > EOF > > (this works correctly) > > If I specify what goes where in the KS file: > > part /boot --fstype ext3 --onpart sda1 > part /tmp --fstype ext3 --onpart sda9 > part /var --fstype ext3 --onpart sda8 > part swap --onpart sda6 > part /local1 --fstype ext3 --onpart sda10 > part /usr --fstype ext3 --onpart sda7 > part / --fstype ext3 --onpart sda5 > > Anaconda croaks with the following error: > > 15:27:41 CRITICAL: parted exception: Error: Error informing the > kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda5 -- Device or > resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you > made to /dev/sda5 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or > use it in any way before rebooting. > > > Googling this error shows it popping up at various time (back to > FC3 or so), but no solutions. > > This worked fine in CentOS 4.4 (RHEL4 u4), but broke in the next > update (and is still broken in CentOS 5.1 [RHEL5 u1]). > > I could work around this in CentOS 4 by loading systems against an > old 4.4 image, then applying all the updates to get to 4.6. I > can't do this in 5, since it is broken for all releases... > > Is there better way to achieve what I'm doing or is this just > an Anaconda bug that's making my life difficult? I don't see an > advantage to moving everything to LVM for simple single-disk > systems... > > > Thanks-- > > --- Cris > > PS: I have a couple Anaconda dumps if someone is interested... _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
