On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 14:25 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > On 09/03/2013 02:02 PM, David Lehman wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 13:38 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > >> On 09/03/2013 05:22 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 10:07 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > >>>> In kickstart, is there a way of specifying an LVM PV partition in a > >>>> manner which does not involve specifying a specific device such as > >>>> sdb1? I tried using the PV's UUID but anaconda "does not like" LVM UUIDs. > >>> LVM PV is specified as a partition and the 'part' kickstart command has > >>> the --onpart option, that supports multiple formats. See [1] for more > >>> details. > >> I am very much aware of what the manual says. The problem is that it > >> does not work! > >>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#part_or_partition > >>> > >>> Also please note that there is the kickstart-list [2] for this type of > >>> questions. > >>> > >>> [2] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > >>> > >>> Hope this helps, > >>> > >> On the other hand, I was not aware of the kickstart mailing list so I > >> will go there. > > I recommend that you file a bug (against anaconda) including your > > ks.cfg, the log files from /tmp, and a fairly detailed description of > > the problem. That can save a lot of back-and-forth about what you tried > > to do and what happened. > The trouble is that I am not sure it is a true bug ... but I could file > it as an RFE. The UUIDs that a PV has are more than a big different > (crazy?) when compared to the UUIDs found on regular partitions. For > regular ext partitions or for BTRFS, the UUIDs are what anaconda expects > to see and it all works fine even when the disks are physically shuffled > around. But, to identify an LVM Physical Volume, right now it appears > that you need to specify the device. It wouldn't be the first time we had to CLOSED->NOTABUG something -- not the end of the world. This is exactly the kind of back&forth I would like to avoid. Please just file a bug with the needed information so we can move beyond the speculation phase. Thanks. > > Gene > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
