Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux fail with error "Specified nonexistent disk sda in partition command" ?

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Issue

  • Kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7 fail with an error message as follows.
Error Parsing Kickstart Config  
The following error was found while parsing your kickstart configuration:  
The following problem occurred on line 2 of the kickstart file:  
Specified nonexistent disk sda in partition command
  • Why does the kickstart installation fail to detect sda disk?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7
  • HP Proliant DL 320 G3 with an Adaptec disk controller (In case of RHEL5)

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