kickstart fails when mounting partitions in "%pre" script on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • kickstart fails when using follwing "%pre" script.

    for part in `fdisk -l | grep -i Linux | egrep -iv "swap|raid" | awk '{print $1}' | sort`
do
    echo -e "${blue}  Trying to rescue data from $part${gray}"
    mkdir -p /tmp/probedisk
    mount -o ro $part /tmp/probedisk
    umount /tmp/probedisk
    rmdir /tmp/probedisk
done

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.5

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