I found that the VMware's LSI Logic SCSI adapter did not have this problem. -Corey -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chandler Wilkerson Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:08 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Kickstart Partitioning Errors It sounds like anaconda is not seeing your hard drive at all (which to my recollection happens with VMWare's SCSI drivers in some versions). You can get more info by going to the shell after getting the error (Alt-F2) and running the list-harddrives command. -- Chandler Wilkerson Rice University 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 CentOS 5.2 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." > > 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. I'm not sure where this is stored in file. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > !DSPAM:3857,4a02e40818327459121103! > > _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
