Kickstart "Unable to locate partition ... "

From: anybody (anybody_at_aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com)
Date: 09/09/04

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    Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:01:44 GMT

    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

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