unwanted prompt during koan xen install ...
 

I've got my kickstart for rhel5 xen guests defined with the following
disk/partition info:


bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
clearpart --all --drives=xvda
part swap --fstype swap --size 512 --ondisk=xvda
part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=xvda --size=1 --grow


When I run my koan command and connect to the xm console, the install
works perfectly, with one hitch: I get prompted at the start of
anaconda, with ...



Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

+-----------------+ Warning +-----------------+
| |
| The partition table on device xvda was |
| unreadable. To create new partitions it |
| must be initialized, causing the loss of |
| ALL DATA on this drive. |
| |
| This operation will override any previous |
| installation choices about which drives |
| to ignore. |
| |
| Would you like to initialize this drive, |
| erasing ALL DATA? |
| |
| +-----+ +----+ |
| | Yes | | No | |
| +-----+ +----+ |
| |
| |
+---------------------------------------------+

<Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements | <Space> selects | <F12>
next screen



... and once I click "Yes", the rest of the install runs completely
automated without interaction. When I build physical systems, via a
similar (but obviously, not identical) kickstart, I don't have to
interact with the installer at all. Anything obvious I'm doing wrong
to cause that prompt to get thrown up?


Thanks,
-s-

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unwanted prompt during koan xen install ...
 

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
I've got my kickstart for rhel5 xen guests defined with the following
disk/partition info:


bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
clearpart --all --drives=xvda
part swap --fstype swap --size 512 --ondisk=xvda
part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=xvda --size=1 --grow


When I run my koan command and connect to the xm console, the install
works perfectly, with one hitch: I get prompted at the start of
anaconda, with ...




Have you tried adding '--initlabel' to clearpart?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

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unwanted prompt during koan xen install ...
 

On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
I've got my kickstart for rhel5 xen guests defined with the
following disk/partition info:

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
clearpart --all --drives=xvda
part swap --fstype swap --size 512 --ondisk=xvda
part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=xvda --size=1 --grow
When I run my koan command and connect to the xm console, the
install works perfectly, with one hitch: I get prompted at the
start of anaconda, with ...


Have you tried adding '--initlabel' to clearpart?


That was it, exactly. Thanks, and I now feel dumb for overlooking
that. :-)


-s-

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Sandor W. Sklar wrote:


On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
I've got my kickstart for rhel5 xen guests defined with the following
disk/partition info:

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
clearpart --all --drives=xvda
part swap --fstype swap --size 512 --ondisk=xvda
part / --fstype ext3 --ondisk=xvda --size=1 --grow
When I run my koan command and connect to the xm console, the install
works perfectly, with one hitch: I get prompted at the start of
anaconda, with ...


Have you tried adding '--initlabel' to clearpart?


That was it, exactly. Thanks, and I now feel dumb for overlooking
that. :-)




And I feel nerdy for remembering it ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

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