Re: kickstart and raid+lvm, is that possible?

Ed Wilts <[email protected]> Tue, 25 May 2004 15:16:20 -0500
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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:57:51PM -0400, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 15:44, Ed Wilts wrote:
> > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:36:42PM -0400, Roger Pe?a Escobio wrote:
> > > 
> > > i'm looking into the RHEL documentation and in google too about the
> > > subject topic but i had not luck.
> > > 
> > > is it possible to _install_ a RHEL with a Logical Volumen over a raid
> > > (md?) "partition" ?
> > 
> > Somebody else answered that it's possible to do this, but I'll give you
> > one issue that you'll run into.  If /dev/md0 is not in /etc/fstab, the
> > reaidstart won't happen at boot time.  See:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103407
> > 
> > There's a workaround in that bug report too.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to either remove the offending lines from
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or echo '(appropriate additions)' >> /etc/fstab
> in the post-install script with kickstart config?

Yup - either would work.  Adding the right entry to /etc/fstab is the
most supported method.  In post-install, you could also copy/create
/etc/rc.modules containing:
#!/bin/sh
raidstart --all

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