Why does the installer exits with the message "Specified nonexistent disks mapper/mpath0 in partition command" while installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 on an FC attached OPEN-V Lun ?
Issue
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Why does the message "Specified nonexistent disks mapper/mpath0 in partition command" come up while installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 on an FC attached OPEN-V Lun ?
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The kickstart file is given below :
install text network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 --device=eth0 url --url http://<IP-Address>/ks.cfg lang en_US keyboard sg clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=mapper/mpath0 timezone Europe/Zurich auth --enablemd5 --enableshadow rootpw --iscrypted $1$q34E2d96$Veijg44rKciYXNlbbCrDt0 firewall --enabled --ssh skipx key --skip ignoredisk --drives=cciss/c0d0,sdb,sdc,sdd,sde logging --level=debug #Disk partitioning information part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 256 --ondisk mapper/mpath0 part pv.1 --size 0 --grow --ondisk mapper/mpath0 #Logical Volume information volgroup rootvg --pesize=32768 pv.1 logvol / --vgname=rootvg --name=root --size=24576 --fstype ext3 --grow logvol swap --vgname=rootvg --name=swap --size=4096 --fstype swap
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
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Fibre Channel storage
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OPEN-V LUNs
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Two Emulex HBAs
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