Software RAID and anaconda

[johnpaul]

Hi

Can you post the kickstart file's contents. That may give some clue

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miles, Paul" <Paul.Miles at quadriga.com>
To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:09 PM
Subject: Software RAID and anaconda


> Hello,
>
> We're using custom kickstarts to install to HP DL140 servers. Since
> these servers have 2 IDE hard drives, we're using RAID 1 software raid
> to configure them.
>
> The actual raid configuration works perfectly, the systems install,
> although very slowly.
>
> I tracked the slowness problem to the fact that anaconda appears to be
> automatically rebuilding the RAID array on each install. I've tried
> trashing the MBR (ie, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=512; dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1k count=512) and this seems to perfectly
> remove the partition table information as shown by fdisk -l but yet
> still as soon as anaconda makes the partitions during the kickstart, the
> RAID rebuilding kicks off again.
>
> Vital statistics :
>
> Fedora core 3
> HP Dl140 - xeon processor
> 1GB ram
> 2 x IDE hard drives
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received,
>
> Paul
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