Created attachment 559106 [details]
anaconda xml output

I would like to kickstartize my servers installation, but I can't, because anaconda is crashing all the time at disk partitioning.

I use this layout:

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[root@ph04r01 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] 
md1 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
      975719424 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
      bitmap: 1/8 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk

md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
      524276 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU]
      
unused devices: <none>
[root@ph04r01 ~]# pvs
  PV         VG       Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/md1   vg_ephan lvm2 a-   930.52g    0 
[root@ph04r01 ~]# vgs
  VG       #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
  vg_ephan   1   3   0 wz--n- 930.52g    0 
[root@ph04r01 ~]# lvs
  LV      VG       Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
  root    vg_ephan -wi-ao  20.00g                                      
  storage vg_ephan -wi-ao 906.52g                                      
  swap    vg_ephan -wi-ao   4.00g      
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... and I just can't find any way how to kickstart it.

If I try to use the anaconda-generated kickstart which appears at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg after the installation, I need to change order of the lines (because it tries to use a PV before it is actually defined, etc. which is probably bug as well), anaconda crashes.

I tried to modify it a bit, even add %pre to overwrite first 32 MB of all hard drives, doesn't help.

The same problem occurs with:

- RHEL 6.1
- RHEL 6.2
- Scientific Linux 6.1
- CentOS 6.1
- CentOS 6.2

Attached is the latest kickstart and what it produces on SL 6.1 (because that's the last one I've tried so I collected the logs from it) - anaconda xml output + screenshot. Also you can have a look at lshw output.