Kickstart help?

We've had Kickstart working nicely on our ia32 systems, and elilo 3.2 loads ia64 Red Hat 7.1 and 7.2 Kickstart. But KS (via http or ftp) is failing just after it retrieves netstg1.img with:
Error mounting /dev/loop0 on
/mnt/runtime (Invalid argument).
This shouldn't happen, and I'm
rebooting your system now.

Setting ramdisk_size�92 doesn't help. Using NFS causes it to die immediately after it does its DHCP, and just before it would normally show the "retrieving netstg1.img" message.

Oddly enough, using NFS for a manual Kickstart seems to work.

Also, any tips for making Kickstart do EFI partitions? I've tried "part --size 100 --ondisk sda /boot/efi --type ef" but KS doesn't appear to format it correctly.

If the partition already exists (was created by other tools):
part /boot/efi --ondisk=sda --onpart=sda1 --size0 --fstype=vfat --noformat

Otherwise to create it:
part /boot/efi --size 100 --ondisk sda --type#9 --onprimary 1

--type takes a base-10 integer (so 0xEF would be --type#9).

The partitioning code underlying Anaconda changed significantly between RHL 7.1 and 7.2 (note addition of --fstype in 7.2). I don't recall all the changes so you'll have to play with it some.

Also, note that a disk with no partition table already will be made with GPT. If it has a DOS partition table, it will stay DOS, and if it has a GPT, it stays GPT.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
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