On 2010-12-15 13.16, Thomas Hemmingby Espe wrote: > (this has also been posted to rhn-satellite-users, sorry for the cross-posting). > > Hello. > > We are trying to setup automated partition aligment during kickstart > install. The kickstart is generated > from a Satellite 5.4 installation. > > In the %pre-section of the kickstart, I have the following script: > > fdisk /dev/sda <<EOF > d > 1 > d > 2 > d > 3 > d > 4 > n > p > 1 > 1 > +200m > t > fb > x > b > 1 > 128 > w > EOF > > which deletes previously created partitions, creates a 200MB partition > and aligns it to sector 128, as per > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf > Then, we create the remaning partitions: > > part /boot --fstype=ext3 --noformat --onpart=sda1 I think formatting the just created partition might help. > part pv.00 --size=1000 --grow > volgroup vg00 pv.00 > logvol /opt --vgname=vg00 --name=optvol --size=6000 --grow > logvol /var/opt --vgname=vg00 --name=varoptvol --size=1000 --grow > logvol /var --vgname=vg00 --name=varvol --size=4000 > logvol / --vgname=vg00 --name=rootvol --size=8000 > logvol swap --vgname=vg00 --name=swap --size=4000 > > During installation, after the %pre-scripts have run, the following > messages appears: > > "Unable to locate partition sda1 to use for /boot. > Press OK to reboot your system" > > On VT 2, I am able to verify that the partition does indeed exist > (using fdisk -lu) and that it starts at sector 128. > > Has anyone else been experiencing this? Does anyone see a solution to this? > > Sincerely, > > > -- Anders Blomdell Email: anders.blomdell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Department of Automatic Control Lund University Phone: +46 46 222 4625 P.O. Box 118 Fax: +46 46 138118 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
