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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: KickStart installation, strange errors with RAID5 part-ing Reply with quote

Hi,

I am using a kickstart CD (FC4) to load on several systems.
I basically have 2 types. A: 2 drives, B: 3 drives.

On A I use RAID1, on B I use RAID5.
RAID1 kickstart works fine, B does not.

I did a manual partition and install, and took the contents of the /root/anaconda-ks.cfg file.

I made the following for my kickstart:
Code:
clearpart --all --initlabel
part raid.1 --size=250 --ondisk=hda --asprimary
part raid.2 --size=250 --ondisk=hdb --asprimary
part raid.3 --size=250 --ondisk=hdc --asprimary
part raid.4 --size=4096 --ondisk=hda
part raid.5 --size=4096 --ondisk=hdb
part raid.6 --size=4096 --ondisk=hdc
part raid.7 --size=2048 --ondisk=hda
part raid.8 --size=2048 --ondisk=hdb
part raid.9 --size=2048 --ondisk=hdc
part raid.10 --size=4096 --ondisk=hda
part raid.11 --size=4096 --ondisk=hdb
part raid.12 --size=4096 --ondisk=hdc
part raid.13 --size=2048 --ondisk=hda
part raid.14 --size=2048 --ondisk=hdb
part raid.15 --size=2048 --ondisk=hdc
part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=hda
part raid.17 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=hdb
part raid.18 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=hdc
raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.1 raid.2 raid.3
raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID5 raid.4 raid.5 raid.6
raid /tmp --fstype ext3 --level=RAID5 raid.7 raid.8 raid.9
raid /var --fstype ext3 --level=RAID5 raid.10 raid.11 raid.12
raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID5 raid.13 raid.14 raid.15
raid /home --fstype ext3 --level=RAID5 raid.16 raid.17 raid.18


For some reason, this constantly fails. I have 3 identical drives.
Currently, I get errors like "An error occurred trying to format md1. This problem is serious, and the install can not continue".

md1 is the "/" partition.
I tried a few things, and found out that if I changed --level=RAID5 -> RAID1, it does work... But, this is not what I want.

(PS: --level=RAID* -> --level * does not work either)

Does anyone have an idea why this does not work?...
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try the Fedora forum since this is a GENTOO Linux forum.
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