On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: > The solution is to activate the LVs in %pre > It turns out that there is /dev/sda present but not the device files for /dev/sdaX. > > …snip > %pre > mknod /dev/sda2 b 8 2 > pvscan > vgchange -ay > %end > snap… > > alternatively this oneliner is working too, interestingly > > …snip > %pre > parted /dev/sda unit MiB print > %end > snip… > > Note that with the parted command it is not necessary to vgchange afterwards. > > Is there a builtin kickstart command that accomplishes the same instead of some %pre? > If not, why is %pre necessary? %pre was not necessary with RHEL7. Is this by design or is it a bug? This is a bug of some sort, as David said. The fact that parted print fixed it makes me think that your storage is slow, since all parted does is open/close the device and tell the kernel to rescan the partitions -- which should have already happened at boot time when the device appeared. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list