Bug in anaconda / kickstart...

[Cris Rhea]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:28:00PM +0100, Harald_Jensas at Dell.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did you try running partprobe as the last thing you do in the %pre
> script?

Yes, tried that (good suggestion)... No effect.

I've been using this method within Kickstart since RedHat 7 days... something
changed/broke in Anaconda between RHEL4.4 and 4.5 where it appears that Anaconda
is keeping a file descriptor open to /dev/sda (Googling the error message finds some
comments by people suggesting a file descriptor open issue with Anaconda).

The sfdisk is working-- the disk is partitioned correctly and can be verified 
by either a <CTL><ALT><F2> shell or after the fact booting in rescue mode.

Thanks.

--- Cris

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