For the first time in a long while I attempted a PXE install of FC (FC4) tonight
I was installing onto with two HDD, which previously had WinXP (hda, single NTFS partition) and FC2 installed. WinXp is still on the box :-(.
The initial setup worked fine ... PXE did all the stuff it should do, except that I had one small error in my dhcpd.conf file which I couldn't resolve, but could bypass - it didn't serve up the right gateway, but I could get around that by manually entering the right data at the apropriate point in the pre-anaconda stage.
However, when it got to the point of formatting the patitions (I'd selected automation partition, remove all Linux partitions) it hung, no activity visible on the screen.
Hitting ctrl-alt-F2 to go to VT2 and doing sh# ps aux showed no unexpected activity - really just anaconda sitting there waiting.
Running lvm and scanning for all volumes hung, so I hit ctrl-c and got the message that it was waiting for a lock.
I managed the installation OK, but only by restarting and manually configuring partitions with NO LVM.
Anyone any clues? This is a test system, so I was able to repeat the problem consistently.
I can also retry with other options if anyone has any bright ideas .. the ks file I'm planning to use for a PXE install to over 100 systems in a week or so would be a lot easier to set up if I could use automatic partition with LVM :-(
The only clue I can google came from an announcement relating to FC2 on http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/2180/index.html
which said "Upgrades via anaconda are very untested; test at your own risk. Upgrades of systems with their root filesystem on LVM is known to not work."
There are aparently no bugzilla entries - I used search term 'pxe lvm'
Tony
On Tuesday 14 Feb 2006 00:52, Tony Dietrich wrote:
For the first time in a long while I attempted a PXE install of FC (FC4) tonight
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Tony
OK, this isn't initially a FC problem.
I had a system that when installed fell foul of the old problem where if Windoze got to write the partition table first there were compatibility problems. That was an old Win/RH9 dual system. I'd never altered the partitions since then, and just reformatted the partitions and installed new OS.
This time I asked it to re-partition, and it balked on the LVM format for some reason. Partitioning and formatting to ext3 worked, and removing those partitions and then re-installing got LVM installed.
So I guess we can just put this one down to MSWin and RH not agreeing on the partition table.
Tony
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Tony Dietrich