why kickstart kit can't work unattended ?

jiawj · 09-17-2006, 12:45 PM

Hi,all

my box booted from PXE and installed from kickstart method.
my ks.cfg file content:

Quote:

install
nfs --server 192.168.10.11 --dir /home/nfs
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
mouse none
skipx
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname exp
rootpw --iscrypted $1$lNqbE5qQ$xu7BwD3J8jnvDy5qqBBub/
firewall --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone Asia/Shanghai
bootloader --location=mbr

clearpart --all

#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
#part / --fstype ext3 --size 10000
#part swap --size=2000

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk sda
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2000 --ondisk sda
part swap --size 100 --ondisk sda

text

%packages
@ legacy-software-development
@ system-tools
@ development-tools
@ text-internet
@ legacy-network-server
@ dialup
@ network-server
@ kernel-development
@ compat-arch-support
grub
kernel-smp
kernel

%post

on installation process , console prompt this:

Quote:

The partition table on device sda was unreadable....
Would you like to initialize the drive,erasing ALL DATA?

so,I must press Yes for next step,so boring!
pls tell me how to correct my ks.cfg file to get rid of the prompt, very thanks.

Chromezero · 09-18-2006, 10:09 AM

I'm not positive that it will fix it, but you might try to add "--initlabel". This is what I typically use when kickstarting and don't remember ever having that problem.

Code:

clearpart --initlabel --all

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk sda
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2000 --ondisk sda
part swap --size 100 --ondisk sda

jiawj · 09-18-2006, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chromezero

I'm not positive that it will fix it, but you might try to add "--initlabel". This is what I typically use when kickstarting and don't remember ever having that problem.

Code:

clearpart --initlabel --all

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk sda
part / --fstype ext3 --size 2000 --ondisk sda
part swap --size 100 --ondisk sda

very thanks for Chromezero,but after I add the --initlabel parameter,the prompt still pop-up.
And I find from redhat manual:

Quote:

--initlabel
Initializes the disk label to the default for your architecture (for example msdos for x86 and gpt for Itanium). It is useful so that the installation program does not ask if it should initialize the disk label if installing to a brand new hard drive.

that's funny!