[WBEL-users] Problem with kickstart

[Steve Phillips]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 23:41, Alex Tkachenko wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I installed one system using GUI installer, and then I am trying to use
> the same configuration to install another one (on identical platform)
> using generated anaconda-ks.cfg. Installation fails with the message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 1042, in ?
>     instClass.setInstallData(id)
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1207, in setInstallData
>     self.readKickstart(id, self.file)            
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 674, in readKickstart
>     handlers[args[0]](id, args[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 954, in defineRaid
>     raise RuntimeError, "Tried to use an undefined partition in RAID
> specificat"
> RuntimeError: Tried to use an undefined partition in RAID specification
> 
> (output clipped because of minicom)
> 
> The part of kickstart file which determines the hard drive layout:
> 
> clearpart --linux
> part raid.15 --size=100 --ondisk=hda --asprimary
> part raid.16 --size=100 --ondisk=hdc --asprimary
> part raid.18 --size=12288 --ondisk=hdc
> part raid.17 --size=12288 --ondisk=hda
> part raid.20 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=hdc
> part raid.19 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=hda
> raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.15 raid.16
> raid pv.22 --fstype physical volume (LVM) --level=RAID1 raid.17 raid.18
> raid pv.23 --fstype physical volume (LVM) --level=RAID1 raid.19 raid.20
> volgroup Volume00 pv.22 pv.23
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=Volume00 --size=1024
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=Volume00 --size=2048
> logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=Volume00 --size=8192
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Have a great weekend,
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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After my initial response, I ran across this -
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2004-04/0332.html
Let us know if it works!
stevep