Re: Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

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On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 at 08:29, Hooton, Gerard <g.hooton@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> I put nvme_core.multipath=N in the grub.cfg as follows
> linuxefi /Centos8/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8-x86_64-dvd nvme_core.multipath=N rd.live.check inst.ks=http://192.168.1.10/kickstart/ks.cfg<http://143.239.132.208/kickstart/ks.cfg>
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> This did not solve the problem.
>

OK remove that suggestion and try the following from
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/24/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-commands-ignoredisk.html

try adding the following to the kickstart

ignoredisk --only-use=nvme0n1



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> Subject: Re:  Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:49:24 -0400
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> On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:57, Hooton, Gerard <
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> The computer is Lenovo Thinkstation p620
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> From df command I see:
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> Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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> devtmpfs                      16G     0   16G   0% /dev
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> tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
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> tmpfs                         16G   26M   16G   1% /run
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> tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
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> /dev/mapper/cs_uews027-root   70G  7.1G   63G  11% /
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> /dev/nvme0n1p2              1014M  386M  629M  39% /boot
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> /dev/nvme0n1p1               599M  7.3M  592M   2% /boot/efi
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> /dev/mapper/cs_uews027-home  390G  2.8G  387G   1% /home
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> tmpfs                        3.2G  8.0K  3.2G   1% /run/user/42
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> tmpfs                        3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0
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> I am not familiar with this hardware, and a quick looks shows that
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> there are a lot of variations on the p620. However I did find
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> <https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/ts_p620_redhat_enterprise_linux_8_installation_v1.0.pdf>
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> https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/ts_p620_redhat_enterprise_linux_8_installation_v1.0.pdf
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> and
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> <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/pdf/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-8-Configuring_device_mapper_multipath-en-US.pdf>
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> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/pdf/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-8-Configuring_device_mapper_multipath-en-US.pdf
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> I haven't used multipath and hope some people who have better ideas
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> will chime in, but at this point I would see if passing the PXE kernel
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> boot a  `nvme_core.multipath=N` helps any.
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> See attached files for more info.
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> Subject: Re:  Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart
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> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:28:05 -0400
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> On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:15, Hooton, Gerard <
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> Hi All,
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> I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8
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> When I try to do a completely automated install  using PXE/UEFI  it get to the point where it reads the kickstart config file.
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> Then I see the following message
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> "kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for nvme0n1"
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> The above says that the system thinks your box is multipath but the
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> other drives are not showing up correctly. You will need to provide a
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> lot more information for anyone to be able to help diagnosis this for
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> you:
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> 1. What is the build system
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> 2. What kind of drives/drive controller is it
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> 3. What is the rest of the kickstart that might tell it that it is multipath?
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> 4. What are the pxe/uefi boot options in case that is telling it to
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> try and probe for multipath that doesn't exist.
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> This is what I have in the kickstart file
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> # Clear the Master Boot Record
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> zerombr
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> # Partition clearing information
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> clearpart --all --initlabel
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> autopart --nohome --type=lvm --fstype=xfs
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>  ================
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> When I install from a USB drive it works OK and I have the following in  /dev/disk/by-id
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810 -> ../../nvme0n1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d -> ../../nvme0n1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 lvm-pv-uuid-5Dg4mg-saHa-hJJ6-n5a8-MxBS-gdFi-5jPoNn -> ../../nvme0n1p3
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 UNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-0-> ../../nvme0n1p2
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
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> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 400 Jul  5 10:28 .
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKtEdtLjwJQyIdxJcSvPv8TEAjwYGMv6yU -> ../../dm-0
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKAooqrczySYJyiHvUAUji9oScPN2cVi7J -> ../../dm-1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-swap -> ../../dm-1
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-root -> ../../dm-0
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkK5HZXbR2ow5xKGuD7jVe4UPzZm2qRLLXI -> ../../dm-2
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> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-home -> ../../dm-2
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> It's looks like that I am not doing the disk drive stuff in the config file correctly.
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> sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's
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Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on  BBS...
time to reboot.
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