1

I Have a ML350 Gen8, that on first PXE Boot, will ask me whether I am sure I want to erase raid controller cciss/c0d0 giving me an option of Yes | No. This only happens when the disks are brand new out of the box.

Disk layout:

clearpart --all --drives=cciss/c0d0
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=512 --grow --maxsize=10
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=cciss/c0d0 --append=""

Any Ideas would be great

ewwhite
  • 197,159
  • 92
  • 443
  • 809
RussellW
  • 111
  • 2

1 Answers1

1

Can you tell us what operating system you're wiring with? That's a big detail. I'll assume Red Hat or CentOS...

An HP Gen8 server under a modern OS will be using the HPSA driver, not CCISS. So your drives will be /dev/sdX... e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. (maybe this isn't a Gen8 server)

Regardless, assuming RHEL or CentOS, you'll need the zerombr parameter in your kickstart to get around this issue.

From the documentation:

zerombr: If zerombr is specified any invalid partition tables found on disks are initialized. This destroys all of the contents of disks with invalid partition tables. This command is required when performing an unattended installation on a system with previously initialized disks.

Also see: VMware ESXi CentOS 6.4 kickstart installation

Community
  • 1
ewwhite
  • 197,159
  • 92
  • 443
  • 809