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"Bly, MJ (Martin)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:07:25 +0000
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I'm interested in the answer to this too.  We have lots of data servers
for which this is an issue.

	Martin.
-- 
Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Yannick Patois
> Sent: 05 December 2007 08:55
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: PXE non interactive boot prompt for GPT partition table
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm installing my machines through PXE (in fact using Quattor).
> 
> I've a new storage machine, and when I stated the 
> installation I had the
> suprise to see it hang somewhere. So I went to the machine 
> room, plugged
> a screen and keyboard and read (something like) "/de/sdb has some GPT
> table, I cant do much with it unless you reformat it. Do it 
> [Yes] [Ignore]".
> 
> Well, if Anaconda would have carefully read its config file, it would
> have seen that the only partitions I'm dealing with are on 
> /dev/sda (the
> rest is storage and Anaconda should keep its hands out of it).
> 
> Is there a way to say that in the kickstart file so that I'm not
> prompted for this at install?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> 	Yannick
> 
> -- 
> Yannick Patois <[log in to unmask]>
> IPHC - IN2P3 / CNRS - 23 rue du Loess 67037 Strasbourg
> Tel: 03 88 10 61 83
> 

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