[CentOS] LVM and kickstarts ?
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Mar 3 22:00:39 UTC 2008
Michael Gale wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Can anyone tell me why option 1 works and option 2 fails ? I know I
> need swap and such, however in trouble shooting this issue I trimmed
> down my config.
>
> It fails on trying to format my logical volume, because the mount point
> does not exist (/dev/volgroup/logvol)
>
> It seems that with option 2, the partitions are created and LVM is setup
> correctly. However the volgroup / logvolume was not made active, so my
> /dev/volgroup/logvol did not exist.
>
> Running `lvm lvchange -a -y pathname` from with in the shell after
> anaconda failed made the volgroup / logvol active. Which would allow the
> format command to complete.
>
> Option 1:
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
> logvol swap --fstype swap --name=os_swap_logvol --vgname=os_volgroup01 --recommended
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024 --grow
>
> Option 2:
> zerombr yes
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100
> part pv.os --size=10000 --grow --maxsize=10000 --asprimary
> volgroup os_volgroup01 pv.os
> logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=os_root --vgname=os_volgroup01 --size=1024 --grow
I do this through kickstart and here's what I use:
bootloader --location=mbr
zerombr yes
clearpart --linux --initlabel --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=128 --ondisk=sda --asprimary
part pv.0 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup CentOS --pesize=32768 pv.0
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=root --vgname=CentOS --size=4096 --grow --maxsize=16384
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=CentOS --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=2048
I haven't tried without swap and I think anaconda expects there to be a swap definition
in kickstart, so that might be it, lv wasn't activated because swap was missing.
Best I can think of.
-Ross
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