Mdthbs

I started with this in my kickstart file:

%pre



#***********************************************

#

# Get disk name to generate partition

#

#***********************************************

DIR="/sys/block"



# minimum size of hard drive needed specified in GIGABYTES

MINSIZE=50



ROOTDRIVE=""



# /sys/block/*/size is in 512 byte chunks



for DEV in xvda sda sdb sdc sdd; do

  if [ -d $DIR/$DEV ]; then

    REMOVABLE=`cat $DIR/$DEV/removable`

    if (( $REMOVABLE == 0 )); then

      echo $DEV

      SIZE=`cat $DIR/$DEV/size`

      GB=$(($SIZE/2**21))

      if [ $GB -gt $MINSIZE ]; then

        echo "$(($SIZE/2**21))"

        if [ -z $ROOTDRIVE ]; then

          ROOTDRIVE=$DEV

        fi

      fi

    fi

  fi

done



echo "ROOTDRIVE=$ROOTDRIVE"



cat > /tmp/ks-partition.txt <<EOF



# System bootloader configuration

bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=$ROOTDRIVE



# Clear the Master Boot Record

zerombr



# Partition clearing information

clearpart --all



# Disk partitioning information

part /boot --fstype=ext4 --ondisk=$ROOTDRIVE --size=1000

part pv.00 --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=$ROOTDRIVE --size=1024 --grow

volgroup vg00 pv.00

logvol swap             --fstype="swap" --size=4096 --name=swap --vgname=vg00

logvol /var/log/audit   --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var_log_audit --vgname=vg00

logvol /var/log         --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var_log --vgname=vg00

logvol /var             --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var --vgname=vg00

logvol /opt             --fstype="ext4" --percent=30 --name=opt --vgname=vg00

logvol /                --fstype="ext4" --size=1000 --grow --name=root --vgname=vg00

EOF



%end

And wittled it all the way down to what you see below before it would work (many partial changes in between). Every time I kicked it I would see something like "is_valid_stage1_device: False" in the anaconda.log and it would ask me to manually configure partitioning to continue. Any ideas?

Using 7.2 and the thing i'm kickstarting is a VM. To be clear the below works like a champ but I need/want to automate like the above.

# System bootloader configuration

bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr --boot-drive=xvda



# Clear the Master Boot Record

zerombr



# Partition clearing information

clearpart --all



# Disk partitioning information

part /boot --fstype=ext4 --ondisk=xvda --size=1000

part pv.00 --fstype="lvmpv" --ondisk=xvda --size=1024 --grow

volgroup vg00 pv.00

logvol swap             --fstype="swap" --size=4096 --name=swap --

vgname=vg00

logvol /var/log/audit   --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var_log_audit --vgname=vg00

logvol /var/log         --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var_log --vgname=vg00

logvol /var             --fstype="ext4" --percent=10 --name=var --vgname=vg00

logvol /opt             --fstype="ext4" --percent=30 --name=opt --vgname=vg00

logvol /                --fstype="ext4" --size=1000 --grow --name=root --vgname=vg00

Got it! It wasn't the %pre config at all... I missed the %include for the partition file... dumb.

Here's the line I added (outside of the %pre - above it in my case.)

%include /tmp/ks-partition.txt