Janne, Try changing the --fstype from "physical volume (LVM)" to something like ext3. This looks like an old anaconda/kickstart bug that still isn't fixed.
/dky On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled upon an issue with the kickstart partitioning when trying > to port our kickstart files from rhel4 to rhel5. For rhel4, the > partitioning part of kickstart looked like > > clearpart --all --initlabel > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --asprimary > part pv.01 --size 1 --grow --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" > volgroup vg01 pv.01 > logvol / --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=15000 --name=rootLV > logvol swap --vgname=vg01 --fstype swap --size=2560 --name=swapLV > logvol /tmp --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=5000 --name=tmpLV > logvol /scratch --vgname=vg01 --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --name=scratchLV > > However, when trying to use this for kickstarting rhel5, it doesn't > work. During the partitioning stage anaconda throws an exception > "lvcreate failed for swapLV", and the installation is > aborted. Swithing to another VT and looking at the LV:s that anaconda > has created, it seems that the problem is that the scratchLV has been > created before swapLV, and due to the --grow option it grows to fill > all the space, without leaving enough space left for swapLV. Changing > the kickstart file by setting a fixed size for scratchLV and removing > --grow makes the the kickstart succeed, but having --grow work would > be really convenient for our somewhat heterogeneous machines. > > OTOH, resizing /scratch online after the installation makes for a > really cool demo of system-config-lvm. :) > > Am I missing something really obvious or is it time to enter an issue > into bugzilla? Have other people seen something like this, at least on > bugzilla I didn't find anything that looked relevant? > > -- > Janne Blomqvist > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
