[Linux-ia64] Kickstart help?

[Linux-ia64] Kickstart help?

[Aaron Burt]

We've had Kickstart working nicely on our ia32 systems, and elilo 3.2
loads ia64 Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 Kickstart.  But KS (via http or ftp) is
failing just after it retrieves netstg1.img with:
   Error mounting /dev/loop0 on
   /mnt/runtime (Invalid argument).
   This shouldn't happen, and I'm
   rebooting your system now.

Setting ramdisk_sizeÅ92 doesn't help.  Using NFS causes it to die
immediately after it does its DHCP, and just before it would normally show
the "retrieving netstg1.img" message.

Oddly enough, using NFS for a manual Kickstart seems to work.

Also, any tips for making Kickstart do EFI partitions?  I've tried
"part --size 100 --ondisk sda /boot/efi --type ef" but KS doesn't appear
to format it correctly.

RE: [Linux-ia64] Kickstart help?

[Matt_Domsch]

> Also, any tips for making Kickstart do EFI partitions?  I've tried
> "part --size 100 --ondisk sda /boot/efi --type ef" but KS 
> doesn't appear to format it correctly.

If the partition already exists (was created by other tools):
part /boot/efi --ondisk=sda --onpart=sda1 --size\x100 --fstype=vfat
--noformat


Otherwise to create it:
part /boot/efi --size 100  --ondisk sda --type#9 --onprimary 1

--type takes a base-10 integer (so 0xEF would be --type#9).

The partitioning code underlying Anaconda changed significantly between RHL
7.1 and 7.2 (note addition of --fstype in 7.2).  I don't recall all the
changes so you'll have to play with it some.

Also, note that a disk with no partition table already will be made with
GPT.  If it has a DOS partition table, it will stay DOS, and if it has a
GPT, it stays GPT.


Thanks,
Matt

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