Kickstart install fails when formatting LogVol00 - Fedor 8 install

[Langdon Stevenson]

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