LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Creating custom kickstart for Centos 5 and change hard disk from hda to sda

Hello,

I have created a custom kickstart for my customized centos distribution. It works ok. Now the problem is: with a specific hardware, Centos is not able to understand which driver is needed for the hard disk, and so instead of use the hard disk as sda it uses hda.

When installing, it takes more than one hour and half for formatting, and when then I see a lot of errors in writing on disk.

I've found out the solution: hda=noprobe hda=none in grub.conf, and it works great. Now the issue is only while installing: I'm searching a way to put this commands in my ks, so I hope not to have to wait hours for formatting 250GB of hard disk...

Using a normal centos distro, I could do "linux text hda=noprobe hda=none" and it works, but mine is not a normal distro, and I cannot understand where to put those commands in the ks, as in the documentation I don't find the right option to set

Here is my ks (the most relevant part):

Code:

text

install

cdrom

lang it_IT.UTF-8

timezone Europe/Rome

keyboard it

langsupport --default=it_IT.UTF-8 it_IT.UTF-8

firewall --disabled

selinux --disabled

authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5

bootloader --location=mbr --append="hda=noprobe hda=none"

clearpart --all

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100

part swap --recommended

part pv.2 --size=0 --grow

volgroup vg00 --pesize=32768 pv.2

logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=vg00 --size=8192

logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=var --vgname=vg00 --size=5120

logvol /vlstorage --fstype ext3 --name=vps --vgname=vg00 --size=1024 --grow

skipx

reboot --eject

thanks for your help