Hi,

I have a Dell PE2300 that I am attempting to install Fedora 8 on. I am
doing an automatic install using a kickstart file (that is automatically
generated for me by another application to customise the configuration).


The install fails when it attempts to format the root partition with the
following error:


An error occurred trying to format volgroup00/logvol00
this problem is serious and the install cannot continue

Switching to the console (alt-f6) shows no more information about the error.

I have tried a manual install (with the default Fedora partition scheme)
and that worked fine. So I am at a loss as to why this is tripping up.
I ran the same install on another PE2300 yesterday with the same disk
configuration which went off without a hitch.


Can anyone suggest how to proceed to debug this issue? Any assistance
greatly appreciated.


Regards,
Langdon



Relevant part of the kickstart file:

#########################
# Hard drive partitioning
#########################

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf
zerombr
clearpart --all

# Create partitions
part raid.01 --size=100 --ondisk=sda
part raid.02 --size=100 --ondisk=sdb
part raid.03 --size=100 --ondisk=sdc
part raid.04 --size=100 --ondisk=sdd
part raid.05 --size=100 --ondisk=sde
part raid.06 --size=100 --ondisk=sdf

raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 --device=md0
raid.01 raid.02 raid.03 raid.04 raid.05 raid.06

part raid.07 --size=1000 --ondisk=sda
part raid.08 --size=1000 --ondisk=sdb
part raid.09 --size=1000 --ondisk=sdc
part raid.10 --size=1000 --ondisk=sdd
part raid.11 --size=1000 --ondisk=sde
part raid.12 --size=1000 --ondisk=sdf

raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID1 --device=md1 raid.07 raid.08
raid.09 raid.10 raid.11 raid.12

part raid.13 --size=6060 --ondisk=sda --grow
part raid.14 --size=6060 --ondisk=sdb --grow
part raid.15 --size=6060 --ondisk=sdc --grow
part raid.16 --size=6060 --ondisk=sdd --grow
part raid.17 --size=6060 --ondisk=sde --grow
part raid.18 --size=6060 --ondisk=sdf --grow

raid pv.19 --fstype LVM --level=RAID5 --device=md2 raid.13 raid.14
raid.15 raid.16 raid.17 raid.18 --spares=1

volgroup VolGroup00 pv.19

logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1
--grow

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