LVM problem after kickstart install on RHEL4

[Shabazian, Chip]

Have you installed lvm on these boxes before?  On the HP DL servers,
with CCISS controllers, I've noticed a failure on them if there were
existing lvm partitions unless you clear the partition table with
--initlabel:

clearpart --all --initlabel

Alternatively, you can delete and re-create the partitions in the CCISS
controller BIOS.

Chip

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ajitabh Pandey
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:56 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: LVM problem after kickstart install on RHEL4

Hi,

A very strange problem, after the RHEL4 update 3 kickstart install from
an http server. When the system comes up after the install it is not
able to mount the LVMs. A little investigation tells that the directory
/dev/vg_root does not exists. Following is my kickstart file, perhaps
something obviously wrong there. System is DL585 G2.

<kickstart>
install
url --url http://our.management-server.net/rhel4/
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 keyboard uk
mouse none text skipx zerombr yes # This static address does not work at
the moment as install method is # kickstart over http, so system need to
have an address network --device eth0 --bootproto=static --ip
192.168.1.55 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 192.168.1.254 --nameserver
192.168.1.10,192.168.1.11 --hostname noddy03 network --device eth1
--bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.56 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway
192.168.1.254 --nameserver
192.168.1.10,192.168.1.11 --hostname noddy03 rootpw --iscrypted
$1dsjhdhs$F/uKYN6URk.

#firewall --disabled
firewall --enabled --ssh --http
#selinux --permissive
selinux --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablekrb5
--krb5realm=MYDOMAIN.NET
--krb5kdc=mswinadc01.mydomain.net:88,mswinadc02.mydomain.net:88
--krb5adminserver=mswinadc01.bds.tv:749
timezone --utc Europe/London
bootloader --location=mbr
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 part swap --size=8000
--ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary part swap --size=8000
--ondisk=cciss/c0d0 part swap --size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 part swap
--size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 part pv.01 --noformat --size=100 --grow
--ondisk=cciss/c0d0 volgroup vg_root pv.01 logvol /usr/local --fstype
ext3 --name=lv_usr_local --vgname=vg_root --size=10000 logvol /opt
--name=lv_opt --vgname=vg_root --size=10000 logvol /apps --name=lv_apps
--vgname=vg_root --size=10000 logvol /var --name=lv_var --vgname=vg_root
--size=10000 logvol /var/www --name=lv_www --vgname=vg_root --size=20000
logvol /home --name=lv_home --vgname=vg_root --size=20000 logvol /tmp
--name=lv_tmp --vgname=vg_root --size=10000

%packages

kernel-smp

# mail-server
postfix
-sendmail
-dovecot
-sendmail-cf
-spamassassin

# smb-server
samba
samba-client
-system-config-samba

# mysql
mysql-server
mysql

# web-server
httpd
mod_authz_ldap
mod_ssl
php
php-mysql

# editors
emacs
joe
vim-minimal
# system-tools
zsh
sysstat
screen
openldap-clients
nmap
open
net-snmp-utils
mc
iptraf
ethereal
ckermit

# development-tools
binutils
rcs
subversion

%post
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/sbin/useradd -G wheel -c "Administrator" -d /home/admin -s
/bin/bash admin

</kickstart>

Regards.
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