Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation failed with LVM on M device with "Can'tRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7 installation failed with LVM on MD device with "Can't open /dev/md/1 exclusiv open /dev/md/1 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?" from pvcreate command
Issue
- The kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 failed.
- A system with LVM configured on MD raid in kickstart file as below.
part raid.01 --size=512 --ondisk=sda
part raid.02 --size=131072 --grow --ondisk=sda
part raid.03 --size=512 --ondisk=sdb
part raid.04 --size=131072 --grow --ondisk=sdb
raid /boot --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 raid.01 raid.03
raid pv.01 --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md1 raid.02 raid.04
volgroup vg_root pv.01
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_root --size=16384
logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_root --size=8192
- Observed below error in /tmp/program.log.
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XX:XX:XX,XXX INFO program: Running... lvm pvcreate --config devices { preferred_names=["^/dev/mapper/", "^/dev/md/", "^/dev/sd"] } /dev/md/1
XX:XX:XX,XXX INFO program: Can't open /dev/md/1 exclusively. Mounted filesystem?
XX:XX:XX,XXX DEBUG program: Return code: 5
~~~ - How can to avoid this problem?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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