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Kickstart "Unable to locate partition ... "

anybody

2004-09-15, 11:11 am

I was trying to use a kickstart floppy to install Fedora Core 1 on a
preformatted hard drive and got the following in a message box:

Requested Partition Does Not Exist
Unable to locate partition /dev/hda1 to use for /.
Press 'OK' to reboot your system.

The problem was the following incorrect syntax in my ks.cfg:

part / --fstype ext3 onpart=/dev/hda1

The following syntax works:

part / --fstype ext3 onpart hda1

Did I just make up the incorrect syntax or is it an obsolete syntax?

Anyway it seems the above error message is previously undescribed on Usenet.

themattfella