[Server-devel] xs-pkgs

[Samuel Greenfeld]

In our local case, the deployment purchased a supposedly RHEL-compliant
server which lacked a Linux driver for its built-in RAID controller.

This RAID controller created disk partitions which spanned the full size of
each disk drive.  These partitions appeared when the lower-level disk
controller(s) were accessed directly after the RAID controller was turned
off, and caused anaconda to die whenever it tried to figure out a
partitioning scheme with already-full disks.

Fdisk was used to delete these partitions from a Linux terminal console,
and then anaconda was happy.

The inverse situation also needs to be watched out for: If you are using a
Linux-supported hardware RAID controller, the individual disks/controllers
below it may still be accessible, and installing directly on those could
make the RAID controller unhappy.


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:51 AM, 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)
>>>
>>
>> From a kickstart file or by hand in the installer?
>>
>
> using the cd and taking the kickstart option.
>
>
>> Jerry
>>
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