Speagle, Andy wrote: > Sent: 10 May 2011 13:53 > > Did you use a double dash for “--preexisting”? I didn’t notice as I > was typing it that Outlook had > > “helpfully” changed the two dashes to a single emdash. Did the > pvcreate command actually work: does that > > disk now have a full-disk PV on it? In the pvcreate documentation, I > just came across > > Aye, I had used the --useexisting option with the double-hyphen. > > > Here’s something else to try: > > > > echo "part pv.01 --onpart sdb --grow" >> /tmp/custom-part > > echo "volgroup rootvg /dev/sdb pv.01" >> /tmp/custom-part > > > > If kickstart refuses to create a partition on sdb, you will have to > do something like > > > > lvm pvcreate /dev/sdb > > lvm vgcreate rootvg /dev/sdb > > echo "logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=rootvg --size=4096 > --useexisting" >> /tmp/custom-part > > This seems to have worked for the RHEL 6 installer. RHEL 5.5 still > barfs on this saying that no VG exists with the name "rootvg" ... > > I have filed a BZ with this as a feature request. I hope this gets > added at some point. It should be fairly trivial to do.
Is it any better in RHEL 5.6? Were you able to tell if the lvm commands in the %pre script actually worked? Try them manually from a kickstart shell; that may give a clue where things are going wrong. If the volgroup is being created, maybe kickstart in RHEL 5.5 isn't re-reading the disk information. Maybe there's some way to get it to do that, or at worst get your %pre script to detect whether the disk has volgroup information. If not, create it and reboot; else write /tmp/custom-part to create the logical volumes and continue the install. Moray. “To err is human; to purr, feline.” _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
