Re: LVM problem after kickstart install on RHEL4

[Ajitabh Pandey <Ajitabh Pandey bds tv>]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:28 +0100, Ajitabh Pandey wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:26 -0500, Dean Troyer wrote:
> > On 5/4/06, Ajitabh Pandey <Ajitabh Pandey bds tv> wrote:
> > > <kickstart>
> > > clearpart --all --initlabel
> > > # The following is the partition information
> > > part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=2000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary
> > > part / --fstype ext3 --size=70000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary
> > 
> > The significant difference I see is that your root partition is not in
> > LVM.  The only non-LVM partition I have is /boot.  I think that makes
> > a difference to what is included in your initrd image.  You may have
> > to force the LVM modules to be included.
> 

OK I can confirm that once I moved the root partition to LVM, it worked 
like a charm. Commented out the:

# part / --fstype ext3 --size=70000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary

and added

logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_root --size=70000

So unless the root (/) itself is a part of the LVM then the LVM
partitions are not recognized after a reboot. 

But I always tend to keep the root (/) outside of LVM when doing a
manual install and it has worked with RHEL 3 and 4, so can we say that
this is a bug?

And yes if someone can point out the work around of keeping root outside
the LVM and other LVMs still work then I will be glad.

Regards.
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