I just purchased a Sun Fire X2250 rack mounted server to use as a build machine. I have set it up to use the built in hardware raid to mirror the two 250 GB disks. I am using RHEL 5 update2 X86_64. On our normal Dell desktops we don't use a raid configuration. So to install via pxeboot, I setup my generic kickstart config file to use a pre script that includes: ---- # Determine how many drives we have and use the first drive only. set $(list-harddrives) let numd=$#/2 d1=$1 d2=$3 cat << EOF > /tmp/part-include bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=$d1 --append="apic rhgb quiet" clearpart --all zerombr part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=$d1 part / --fstype ext3 --size=1000 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part /usr --fstype ext3 --size=4000 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part /var --fstype ext3 --size=1000 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size=250 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part /usr1 --fstype ext3 --size=10000 --grow --ondisk=$d1 part swap --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=2000 --ondisk=$d1 EOF ----- This setup works great on the non hardware raid machines. With the raided Sun Fire X2250, it fails to determine the device name of the raided Volume but sees the individual disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Of course it fails the partition. Commenting out the part directives shows me that raided volume name is /dev/mapper/isw_dficaggeej_Volume0. If I hardcode "d1=isw_dficaggeej_Volume0" and restore the part directives, the install completes without a problem. Does anyone know how to have the pre script recognize the hardware mirrored device volume name and use it automatically? Thanks in advance. Rodney Mercer. Nobody said computers were going to be polite. _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
