Have seen this before when re-provisioning 5.4 as 5.5 yes:

Is this the same thing?

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Chris Munns <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Saw this covered slightly back in May
> (https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2010-May/005623.html), but
> haven't seen any resolution in any place that I've looked.
>
> What is happening is that if we attempt to koan --replace-self a Centos
> 5.5 system ( on physical hardware, not a xen or kvm instance), it hangs
> during reformatting of the drives.  The drives are single SSDs, and are
> not exposed as a RAID disk or anything else.
>
>  From my kickstart I do have the following that should be relevant:
>
> # Partition clearing information
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> # Clear the Master Boot Record
> zerombr
> #autopart this
> autopart
>
> NOTE: these 3 lines aren't all next to each other like this, but are in
> their relevant sections of the kickstart
>
> The first time this is run on a brand new system, the following
> formatting happens:
> ....
> 13:34:25 INFO    : formatting swap as swap
> 13:34:25 INFO    : formatting / as ext3
> 13:34:25 INFO    : Format command:  ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs',
> '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00', '-i', '4096', '-j']
>
> 13:34:58 INFO    : formatting /boot as ext3
> 13:34:58 INFO    : Format command:  ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/tmp/sda1',
> '-i', '4096', '-j']
>
> 13:34:58 DEBUG   : starting mpaths
> ...
> it then continues on and all is well.
>
> if we go to koan --replace-self this host.  With no changes to the
> kickstart at all.  We see the following:
> ....
> 00:12:52 DEBUG   : DiskSet.skippedDisks: []
> 00:12:52 DEBUG   : done starting mpaths.  Drivelist: ['sda']
> 00:12:52 DEBUG   : adding drive sda to disk list
> 00:12:53 INFO    : formatting swap as swap
> 00:12:53 INFO    : formatting / as ext3
> 00:12:53 INFO    : Format command:  ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs',
> '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00', '-i', '4096', '-j']
>
>
> Then it hangs.  Watching the screen during this time produces random
> text that looks Greek.  The whole system hangs and ctrl-alt-del doesn't
> work, it requires a power reset.
>
> We just started moving onto Centos 5.5, so I'm more willing to put my
> money into anaconda changes, or something else hit by anaconda than I am
> cobbler, but I figured it was worth while to ask here.  Anyone else seen
> anything like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Chris
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