Installation failed with "storage configuration failed: Tried to use undefined partition pv.01 in Volume Group specification" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Issue

  • I tried to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.
  • I used the following kickstart file, and it failed with "storage configuration failed: Tried to use undefined partition pv.01 in Volume Group specification".
  • pv.01 is defined in the kickstart file.
ignoredisk --only-use=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-XXXXXXXX
bootloader --location=mbr 
zerombr 
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-XXXXXXXX

part /boot --size=256 --fstype=xfs --asprimary --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-XXXXXXXX
part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-XXXXXXXX
volgroup rootVG --pesize=32768 pv.01
logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=swapLV --vgname=rootVG --size=1024
logvol / --fstype=xfs --name=rootLV --vgname=rootVG --size=4048

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

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