Lance I've seen similar issues due to the LVM information being on the physical drives. I usually clear out the first 1M of disk information before starting a re-install. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1 Greg Caetano RHCE HP Linux Solutions Alliances Engineering ________________________________ From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Lance Boomerang Sent: Fri 10/13/2006 10:53 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Issue with RAID/LVM on re-installs Here is an odd one. RHEL4U4 I have a PXE based kickstart that creates a RAID + LVM setup on two internal SATA drives using the below kickstart entry. This works fine on the first install. However, I am working on a setup where I can rebuild hosts often if we need to for whatever reason. If I re-kick the hosts again, the process works great up until the reboot. Then, *sometimes* the machine will stop and the console will display "GRUB" and hang forever. I can try the kickstart again, but the results are the same. However, if I manually reinstall and not use md RAID, then a new kickstart install with this setup works fine again. So, only thing I can think of is that something is not getting cleared in the kickstart process on the drives that is confusing GRUB as it starts to boot. I tried adding all the disk clearing options to the kickstart file but it has not made a difference. Any ideas? kickstart partition section: ---------------------------- bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --drives=sda,sdb --initlabel zerombr yes part raid.13 --size=100 --ondisk=sda part raid.14 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb part raid.17 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sdb part raid.16 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=sda raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.13 raid.14 raid pv.18 --fstype "physical volume (LVM)" --level=RAID1 raid.16 raid.17 volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.18 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=2016 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol04 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol /var --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10016 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=5024 TIA, Lance _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
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