Re: How do I force Anaconda to not install a bootloader?

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Brian Schau wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Why doesn't kickstart honour the "bootloader --location=none" switch on
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS?
>
> Background.  I have created a kickstart script which I will use to setup
> a lot of servers.   The servers runs software raid (level 1) and LVM so
> I cannot use the default anaconda way of installing a boot loader.
>
> So I roll my own setup in the %post section of the kickstart script.
> The setup have been tested and found to work.    I then supply the
>
>     bootloader --location=none
>
> switch in my kickstart script so that no bootloader is installed.
> (see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html)
>
> Yet, when I execute the kickstart installation, after the post phase,
> I see a dialog stating, that the boot loader is installed.
>
> When I reboot the server I end up in the grub shell.     If I manually
> boot the server and check the anaconda-ks.cfg file I see:
>
>     bootloader --location=partition
>
> ... which isn't what I asked for.
>
> So - how do I tell anaconda _not_ to install a bootloader?

Sounds like a bug to me since "--location=none" is supposed to keep it
from happening.  I'd file a bugzilla report.
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