Why does the kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with message "Logical volume name already used in volume group" ?
Issue
- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 using a kickstart file on Dell PowerEdge R620 machine.
- While installing using kickstart, it fails with the following message.
The following error was found while parsing the kickstart
configuration file:
The following problem occurred on line 57 of the kickstart file:
Logical volume name already used in volume group volgroup00
- Here is the partitioning information of kickstart file.
clearpart --linux --drives=sda
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=500
part pv.2 --grow --size=1000
volgroup volgroup00 --pesize=4096 pv.2
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol1 --vgname=vg00 --size=12000
logvol swap --fstype=swap --name=lvol2 --vgname=vg00 --size=8000
logvol /var --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol3 --vgname=vg00 --size=12000
logvol /tmp --fstype=ext4 --name=lvol4 --vgname=vg00 --size=4000
- Why does the kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 fails with message "Logical volume name already used in volume group" ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
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