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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Chandler Wilkerson <<a href="mailto:chwilk@rice.edu">chwilk@rice.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> !DSPAM:3857,4a02e40818327459121103! </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Kickstart-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Kickstart-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Ahmed G. Taha Linux Systems Consultant RHCE & Operating System Programmer (Cell): (573) 289-7300