Why does Kickstart installation of RHEL6 fail with 2 LVM partitions on separate disks?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • There is a machine with two disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb and its required to install using Kickstart, and the following errors appear.
"not enough space" or "unable to match edd entry 0x80"
  • Here is the kickstart partitioning details:
part /boot/efi --fstype=efi --grow --maxsize=200 --size=50
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500

part pv.01 --grow --size=200 --ondrive=sda --onpart=sda
part pv.02 --grow --size=200 --ondrive=sdb --onpart=sdb

volgroup vg_root --pesize=4096 pv.01
volgroup vg_work --pesize=4096 pv.02

logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_root --size=51200 --grow
logvol /workspace --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_work --vgname=vg_workspace --size=1000 --grow

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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