probe drives in during %pre in kickstart

[Matt Rose]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Dan White wrote:

>>> For RHEL5 kickstarts, we use the isys module (from anaconda) to probe which
>>> and how many drives are available in the system.
>>> However, when trying to install a RHEl6 system with, it fails in the pre
>>> part because the function hardDriveDict has been removed from isys.
>>> A googlesearch pointed me to the direction of minihal as a replacement for
>>> isys.DriveDict. However, currently it is not clear to me where I can find
>>> the minihal module and how I should import this module in the pre-phase of
>>> the kickstart.
>>>
>>> Can anyone shed a light on this ?
>>
>> You can use the list-harddrives command line program for this, or if you
>> are writing a script you can see what it does and duplicate it if
>> necessary.
>>
>> - Chris
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> No, list-harddrives is busted
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709880
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The workaround for this is also here, though, and it's pretty simple, and 
won't break backwards compatibility, I don't think.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709880#c5

Matt

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