I just mv'ed parted and forced it to use sfdisk and I think it's going to work. 
 It seems like the problem is related to parted on 64-bit.  I'll test it 
tomorrow morning.

Mitch

Mitch Sako wrote:
> Any idea where to find the initrd rpm for 3.7.4r3729_bli for 64-bit?  I 
> can't seem to find it here.  Or better yet, any way to make 3734 use 
> sfdisk on 64-bit?
> 
> Mitch
> 
> Mitch Sako wrote:
> 
>> Andrea,
>>
>> I noticed that on 32-bit running 3.7.4r3729_bli-1 the 
>> autoinstallscript.conf looks like this:
>>
>> <config>
>>  <disk dev="/dev/hda" label_type="msdos" unit_of_measurement="MB">
>>    <!--
>>      This disk's output was brought to you by the partition tool 
>> "sfdisk",
>>      and by the numbers 4 and 5 and the letter Q.
>>    -->
>>    <part  num="1"  size="298"  p_type="primary"  p_name="-"  
>> flags="boot" />
>>    <part  num="2"  size="1914"  p_type="primary"  p_name="-"  
>> flags="-" />
>>    <part  num="3"  size="*"  p_type="primary"  p_name="-"  flags="-" />
>>  </disk>
>>  <fsinfo  line="10" real_dev="/dev/hda3" mp="/"  fs="xfs" 
>> options="defaults" dump="1" pass="1" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="20" real_dev="/dev/hda1" mp="/boot"  fs="ext2" 
>> options="defaults" dump="1" pass="2" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="30" real_dev="/dev/hda2" mp="swap"  fs="swap" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="40" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/pts"  fs="devpts" 
>> options="gid=5,mode=620" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="50" real_dev="none" mp="/proc"  fs="proc" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="60" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/shm"  fs="tmpfs" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="70" real_dev="/dev/cdrom" mp="/mnt/cdrom"  
>> fs="udf,iso9660" options="noauto,owner,kudzu,ro" dump="0" pass="0"  
>> format="no" />
>>
>>
>>
>> while on 64-bit running -3.7.4r3734_bli-1 it looks like this:
>>
>> <config>
>>
>>  <disk dev="/dev/sda" label_type="msdos" unit_of_measurement="MB">
>>    <!--
>>      This disk's output was brought to you by the partition tool 
>> "parted",
>>      and by the numbers 4 and 5 and the letter Q.
>>    -->
>>  </disk>
>>  <fsinfo  line="10" real_dev="/dev/sda1" mp="/boot"  fs="ext2" 
>> options="defaults" dump="1" pass="2" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="20" real_dev="/dev/sda2" mp="/"  fs="xfs" 
>> options="defaults" dump="1" pass="1" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="30" real_dev="/dev/sda3" mp="swap"  fs="swap" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="40" real_dev="/dev/cdrom" mp="/mnt/cdrom"  
>> fs="udf,iso9660" options="noauto,owner,kudzu,ro" dump="0" pass="0"  
>> format="no" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="50" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/pts"  fs="devpts" 
>> options="gid=5,mode=620" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="60" real_dev="none" mp="/proc"  fs="proc" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>  <fsinfo  line="70" real_dev="none" mp="/dev/shm"  fs="tmpfs" 
>> options="defaults" dump="0" pass="0" />
>>
>> The older 32-bit rpms are using sfdisk and the newer 64-bit rpms are 
>> using parted.  The <part stuff is missing when parted is used.  Is 
>> this normal or not?
>>
>> Mitch
>>
>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>
>>> It's stdout:
>>>
>>> sh-2.05b# parted -s -- /dev/sda print 2>/dev/null
>>> Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means 
>>> that another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition 
>>> table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe 
>>> to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot 
>>> loaders.
>>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-69878.000 megabytes
>>> Disk label type: msdos
>>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>>> 1          0.000    284.195  primary   ext2        boot
>>> 2        284.195   2236.366  primary   linux-swap  3       2236.367  
>>> 69878.000  primary   xfs Just to be sure....:
>>>       sh-2.05b# parted -s -- /dev/sda print 1>/dev/null
>>> sh-2.05b#
>>> Andrea Righi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Right.. it's a common behaviour for a lot of distros... and what about
>>>> the output, is it printed to stdout or stderr?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Andrea
>>>>
>>>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I checked again.  The RH RPM is parted-1.6.3-29.5 if that makes any
>>>>> difference.  RH usually doesn't change the minor release number and 
>>>>> just
>>>>> appends patches to it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mitch
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrea Righi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ parted --version
>>>>>>> GNU Parted 1.6.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's a very old version... have you tried to update it to a newer
>>>>>> release (at least 1.6.23)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ parted -s -- /dev/sda print
>>>>>>> Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means 
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
>>>>>>> because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to
>>>>>>> ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot 
>>>>>>> loaders.
>>>>>>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76324.500 megabytes
>>>>>>> Disk label type: msdos
>>>>>>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>>>>>>> 1          0.000    271.074  primary   ext2        boot
>>>>>>> 2        271.075  53022.036  primary   xfs         3      
>>>>>>> 53022.037 76324.438  primary   linux-swap
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, the output seems correct... can you check if it is printed to
>>>>>> stdout or stderr? for example what happens if you run:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # parted -s -- /dev/sda print 2>/dev/null
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the commands doesn't print anything we can fix it redirecting 
>>>>>> all to
>>>>>> stdout... let me know..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> -Andrea
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 


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