Just a thought; Have you tried to zero the MBR first in the ks profile ? Also I found out that clearpart --all --initlabel must be used otherwise errors for failed partitioning persist. You may try changing your kickstart profile to reflect something like the following:
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part pv.31 --size=10000 --ondisk=sda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.31 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1000 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=6000 Ahmed On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Chandler Wilkerson <[email protected]>wrote: > It sounds like anaconda is not seeing your hard drive at all (which to my > recollection happens with VMWare's SCSI drivers in some versions). > > You can get more info by going to the shell after getting the error > (Alt-F2) and running the list-harddrives command. > > -- > Chandler Wilkerson > Rice University > > Corey Garst wrote: > >> I've set up a fairly default install of Spacewalk 0.5 and set up a >> channel for CentOS 5.2. I've set up a CentOS 5.2 distro for kickstart >> and I'm not off to a great start. Perhaps this is just something simple >> that I've missed that someone could chime in on. >> >> When I PXE boot with an IDE VM in VMware Workstation, I get the error: >> "An error occurred trying to format myvg/rootvol. This problem >> is serious, and the install cannot continue." >> >> When I PXE boot with a SCSI VM in VMware Workstation, I get the error: >> "Could not allocate requested partitions: Partitioning failed: >> Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. Not enough space >> left to create partition for /boot." >> >> Here is the partitioning details from Spacewalk > Systems > Kickstart > >> Profiles > CentOS-5-2. I'm not sure where this is stored in file. >> >> partition /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200 >> partition swap --size=1000 --maxsize=2000 >> partition pv.01 --size=1000 --grow >> >> volgroup myvg pv.01 >> >> logvol / --vgname=myvg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow >> >> >> -Corey Garst >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kickstart-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >> >> !DSPAM:3857,4a02e40818327459121103! >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Ahmed G. Taha Linux Systems Consultant RHCE & Operating System Programmer (Cell): (573) 289-7300
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