I am trying to find some information regarding how
ignoredisk works and to see if it’s use has changed since RHEL5.* In
RHEL 6/anaconda 13.21.149 *when I am installing with USB media and I use ignoredisk
--disk=<list of disks which includes the USB drive> (like ignoredisk
--disk=sda,sdc )my install fails with the message (from storage/__init__.py in
my version of anaconda):
*** *"The installation
source given by device [‘LABEL=IPMDISK'] could not be found".
It appears that in RHEL 6 when anaconda is
looking for installation media, it will ignore the drives in this list.* I
have used this option exactly the same way in RHEL 5 and it did not have this
issue.
*
The documentation I have found for ignoredisk only
states that it ignores these devices “when partitioning, formatting and clearing”
which doesn’t appear to have changed for RHEL6.
*** Controls anaconda's access to
disks attached to the system. Only one of the following two options may be
used.
*** ignoredisk
--drives=[disk1,disk2,...]
*** Specifies those disks that
anaconda should not touch when partitioning, formatting, and clearing.
*** ignoredisk
--only-use=[disk1,disk2,...]
*** Specifies the opposite - only
disks listed here will be used during installation.
*** ignoredisk --interactive
*** Allow the user manually
navigate the advanced storage screen.
*
I have tried both options listed above, using the
--drives option to ignore disks I don’t want to install onto, or with the
--only-use, with the same results.
I have searched the web looking for anything regarding
this but have only found this one link:
Is this expected behavior for ignoredisk now?* Am I
missing something?
*
Thanks.
Art
Baldini
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David Lehman
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On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:31 -0400, Baldini, Art wrote:
> Is this expected behavior for ignoredisk now? Am I missing something?
Yes. Beginning with RHEL6, ignoredisk actually means "completely ignore
this device". That means the installer is not at all aware of the
device's presence. To use a disk as install source but not for
partitioning, you'll have to use the --drives option to clearpart (if
using clearpart) and/or the --disk option to partition.
Dave
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Thanks.
Art Baldini
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> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 13:31 -0400, Baldini, Art wrote:
>
> > Is this expected behavior for ignoredisk now? Am I missing something?
>
> Yes. Beginning with RHEL6, ignoredisk actually means "completely ignore
> this device". That means the installer is not at all aware of the
> device's presence. To use a disk as install source but not for
> partitioning, you'll have to use the --drives option to clearpart (if
> using clearpart) and/or the --disk option to partition.
>
> Dave
>
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