I don't have these problems with kvm. Using rhel 5.5. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Brown <hbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:36:50 To: Discussion list about Kickstart<kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Problem with fdisk partition aligment (for VMWare) and kickstart patitioning Thomas Hemmingby Espe wrote: > 2010/12/15 Hugh Brown <hbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello, and thanks for the reply. > >> Instead of doing the "d 1 d 2 ..." I just zero out the mbr with dd >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > Yes, we changed the script today to something similar to what you suggest, > but that did not make any difference. > >> Then, I do a similar fdisk <<EOF, however, I also set sda1 to be bootable, >> and create a partition for the physical volume, set it to making sure to >> start/end on a boundary. >> >> I'd double check to make sure you don't have a clearpart directive that is >> overwriting your changes. >> >> You could also try running partprobe after you finish writing out the change >> to the partition table. > > Somehow, partprobe is not available. I have not manage to find out > why. RedHat suggests that > partprobe is part of the parted-package, and parted is available, but > not partprobe. > > The installation halts just after the %pre-script is done (the > repartitioning is the only > %pre-script that is run), so it seems that anaconda is somehow not > able to pick up the changes. > partprobe could have remedied that, I believe, had it been available. > Which version of Redhat are you running? I've been doing this with VMs using RHEL5 running on ESX 4.0 with the storage device presented to vmware via NFS from a NAS box. Hugh _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
