[Spacewalk-list] PXE Partitioning Errors

[Michael DeHaan]

Corey Garst wrote:
> 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 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."
>   

This is an Anaconda/kickstart thing, not specifically a Spacewalk/PXE 
related problem, so it would be best asked
here: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list

You could also try just using autopart if you didn't care about specifics.

> 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
> 	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
> System Administrator, Information Technology
> Tresys Technology
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>
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