Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fail to clear the HW RAID Metadata from disk using %pre script?

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Issue

  • Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fail to clear the HW RAID Metadata from disk using %pre script?
  • The %pre script is as follows.
dmraid -E /dev/sda
  • This hangs and doesn't work.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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