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  • REdhat Kickstart installation failing in disk partition

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    Hello Community,

    I am struggling to identify a possible reason for a Kickstart automation partition problem I am having.

    When I try to use a common installation Image I use to do I see an partition error on screen where looking more deeply in logs I see:

    16:01:57,099 ERR anaconda: storage configuration failed: Unable to allocate requested partition scheme.

    This is a test Virtualbox VM I am working with a VMDK disk of 64GB. The disk is a SATA disk to the VM, mapped on sda. On the installation terminal I can see the disk is ok, and properly recognized as sda. If I do a manual installation, I can manually partition the disk in ext4.

    My Kickstart section related to this is:

    Poweroff after installation

    poweroff

    Accept Eula

    eula --agreed

    Use text mode install

    text

    Install OS instead of upgrade

    install

    Use CDROM installation media

    cdrom

    System bootloader configuration

    bootloader --location=mbr --append=" crashkernel=auto" --boot-drive=sda

    Clear the Master Boot Record

    zerombr

    Partition clearing information

    clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda

    Disk partitioning information

    part /boot --fstype ext4 --size 1024 --asprimary
    part swap --size 16386 --asprimary
    part / --fstype ext4 --size 15360
    part /tmp --fstype ext4 --size 8192
    part /var --fstype ext4 --size 25600
    part /opt --fstype ext4 --size 1 --grow
    #

    I checked all KB and documentation available and I cannot understand why this is not working.

    Any recommendation from community to check the root cause for this problem?

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