[Bug 475864] Re: Unable to kickstart with LVM partition scheme.

[Jim Campbell]

I'm still seeing this on 16.04.3.  The 'expert_recipe' partitioning string is being skipped / ignored. i.e., anything that looks like this:
---
preseed partman-auto/expert_recipe string     \
      boot-root :: \
              500 500 500 ext4                \
                      $primary{ }             \
                      $bootable{ }            \
                      method{ format }        \
                      format{ }               \
                      use_filesystem{ }       \
                      filesystem{ ext4 }      \
                      mountpoint{ /boot }     \
              .                               \
---

Doesn't seem to work. I was very careful, and tried a wide range of
options - working on it for several hours with repeated attempts - and
it always got skipped. As a result (for me), the automated partitioning
stopped at the point where it would clear partitions (as seen in
/var/syslog).

I used an approach similar to that provided by Mick Pollard (see above),
and it worked as desired.

As an additional note, I used this line to automatically skip a warning
about having no swap partition:

preseed --owner partman-basicfilesystems partman-
basicfilesystems/no_swap boolean false

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Title:
  Unable to kickstart with LVM partition scheme.

Status in kickseed package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Attempting to prepare Karmic for deployment into our environment and
  running into a road block.  With jaunty's introduction of LVM we
  migrated our partitioning scheme to be fully LVM based except for
  /boot.  This has worked very well for us.  Using the same partitioning
  scheme in Karmic fails.  Informing me that I have not declared a
  separate partition for /boot then halts with the 'No physical volume
  defined in volume group' error about the automatic partitioning scheme
  and sends me back to the partition scheme selection menu.  Of which I
  never saw in jaunty.  At this point the only thing that works is the
  selection of 'Use entire disk' and this sets things up as normal
  partitions.  Selection of either LVM options gives me the same error
  as I initially get when kickstart first attempts the partitioning.
  Leading me to believe that kickseed is in fact not even reading my
  custom partitioning scheme.  I can't even select Manual at the
  selection screen.  This does nothing and just drops me back at the
  selection screen.  Syslog logs no obvious errors.

  # Partition clearing information
  clearpart --drives vda --initlabel
  # Disk partitioning information
  part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=600 --ondisk=vda
  part pv.01 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=vda
  volgroup vg00 pv.01
  logvol / --name=rootvol --vgname=vg00 --size=20480 --fstype=ext4
  logvol swap --name=swapvol --vgname=vg00 --size=4096
  logvol /var --name=varvol --vgname=vg00 --size=6144 --fstype=ext4
  logvol /tmp --name=tmpvol --vgname=vg00 --size=3072 --fstype=ext4
  logvol /disk/trump --name=trumpvol --vgname=vg00 --size=1 --grow --fstype=ext4

  Description:	Ubuntu 9.10
  Release:	9.10

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