[rhelv6-beta-list] Separate filesystem During system Installation

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Le 24/08/2010 21:07, Mackell, Thomas O a écrit :
> I came across this oddity today during a DVD installation of RHEL Beta6
> rev 2.
> 
> Installing on an HP ProLiant DL380 G6, with two raids, one raid1 with
> two-72gb drives, the raid5 with 3-72GB drives.
> 
>  
> 
> When I created the filesystems using the DVD installation disk with the
> following layout:
> 
>  
> 
> logvol /      --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=8192
> 
> logvol /usr   --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=4096
> 
> logvol /var   --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=4096
> 
> logvol /opt   --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol03 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1026
> 
> logvol /local --fstype ext3 --name=locallv  --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=32
> 
>  
> 
> (The above is a part of a kickstart file I used to get the sizes from)
> 
>  
> 
> The installation works as far as one can see on the screen, all looks
> normal. When I rebooted at the end of the installation, I noticed
> several errors roll off the top of the screen.
> 
> I waited for the bootup to finish. After 15 minutes I rebooted and
> brought the system up in single mode.
> 
> When I got to the prompt, I issued a service network start command.
> 
> One of the messages on the screen was no file/directory found for
> /var/run/subsys.
> 
> Sure enough there was nothing under /var, empty directory so I created
> the run/subsys part.
> 
> Tried to run there was several other commands not found “no file or
> directory found”.
> 
> Tried to look at the fstab, no less command. Checked the /usr directory,
> no bin directory.
> 
> Tried to umount the filesystems to check to see if they were there, no luck.
> 
> Filesystem in use, commented the mount of /usr out, and the /usr
> directory had no bin directory.
> 
> I did a mkdir to create one, rebooted system no luck, a bunch of other
> missing files and directories.
> 
>  
> 
> I just at that point, rebuilt the system, left the default for the
> filesystem, and all worked for the most part,
> 
> The /var/  and /usr/bin directories are there and have files in them.
> 
>  
> 
> After playing around for a while, I ended up with the following:
> 
> If using /var and /usr as separate filesystems, it will fail.
> 
>  
> 
> Should I open a bz or any ideas?


Could you provide your kickstart ?

Regards,