[Server-devel] xs-pkgs

[Tim Moody]

funny thing is that it works fine under cobbler.  anaconda offered to reinitialize the partition and I let it, but still didn't help.


From: Martin Langhoff 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:04 AM
To: Tim Moody 
Cc: server-devel at lists.laptop.org 
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] xs-pkgs



On Mar 29, 2012 5:52 PM, "Tim Moody" <timmoody at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> (btw installing straight from cd never worked for me as it failed on the disk partitioning regardless of the options I chose) 

I've seen that happen when the disk has strange partitioning information. Anaconda queries the disk, gets confused, and eventually dies. We had this after trying to use a HW RAID, and then abandoning that plan for SW RAID. The RAID controller had written some odd partitioning data on the disks.

Can't remember what we did to un-jinx it. Probably switched to a VT early under the installer and used fdisk to write some bog-standard partition anaconda could make sense of :-)



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