[CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

Mon Jul 5 11:28:05 UTC 2021
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:15, Hooton, Gerard <g.hooton at ucc.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8
> When I try to do a completely automated install  using PXE/UEFI  it get to the point where it reads the kickstart config file.
> Then I see the following message
> "kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for nvme0n1"
>

The above says that the system thinks your box is multipath but the
other drives are not showing up correctly. You will need to provide a
lot more information for anyone to be able to help diagnosis this for
you:

1. What is the build system
2. What kind of drives/drive controller is it
3. What is the rest of the kickstart that might tell it that it is multipath?
4. What are the pxe/uefi boot options in case that is telling it to
try and probe for multipath that doesn't exist.


> This is what I have in the kickstart file
>
> # Clear the Master Boot Record
> zerombr
> # Partition clearing information
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> autopart --nohome --type=lvm --fstype=xfs
>  ================
>
> When I install from a USB drive it works OK and I have the following in  /dev/disk/by-id
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810 -> ../../nvme0n1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d -> ../../nvme0n1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 lvm-pv-uuid-5Dg4mg-saHa-hJJ6-n5a8-MxBS-gdFi-5jPoNn -> ../../nvme0n1p3
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 UNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-0-> ../../nvme0n1p2
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 400 Jul  5 10:28 .
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKtEdtLjwJQyIdxJcSvPv8TEAjwYGMv6yU -> ../../dm-0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKAooqrczySYJyiHvUAUji9oScPN2cVi7J -> ../../dm-1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-swap -> ../../dm-1
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-root -> ../../dm-0
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkK5HZXbR2ow5xKGuD7jVe4UPzZm2qRLLXI -> ../../dm-2
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-home -> ../../dm-2
>
>
> It's looks like that I am not doing the disk drive stuff in the config file correctly.
>
>
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