Hi,

 

I am facing weird SL6 install issues : using quattor, I did configure an SL6
machine and tried to have it installed with no luck.

 

-          First of all : appending “telnet” to the kernel/initrd in the PXE
config does not work anymore : node starts installation and does not start a
telnet server for us to watch the installation… too bad :’(

-          Then, during the installation process, if I don’t play with fdisk
in a modified KS file, some volume groups won’t be created/visible because
of a “resource or device busy” issue, and because partition tables are then
obsolete – but I did fix that temporarily

-          But *then*, in the %pre phase, lvm volumes are created, ext3
partitions are created, and I did connect on the node during the
installation and could check that /dev/mapper was populated (after I added
some sleeps and some “vgchange –ay” in the KS file)

o   BUT after that, when anaconda mounts the install partitions and starts
installing rpms, lvm volumes do disappear !

§  There is nothing left in /dev/mapper except the control file

§  The lvm volumes are not mounted

§  Listing the volumes using “lvm lvdisplay --verbose” does show the volumes
as available

§  The /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab does not contain any reference to the lvm
volumes

§  I did notice some error on some virtual console, I do not know if it’s
related (maybe… but how and why ?)

·         program.log:17:22:03,042 ERROR   : swapoff: /etc/fstab: open
failed: No such file or directory

o   And install finally fails because / is too small…

 

I did capture all the install files located under /tmp during the install
time, and can send them to the list if needed (and I did add a “set –x” at
the beginning of the %pre script).

 

Has anybody faced (and solved) this issue already ?

Thanks && regards

 

Frederic Schaer

 

P.S : I’m going to leave for 2 weeks, but I hope someone can provide me with
suggestions by the time I come back !

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