There doesn't seem to be a way to install LVM directly to a raw device in the CentOS/RedHat installer. With a little bit of custom kickstart we can make it do it.

This assumes you have two drives connected to your system, one for boot and one for the system (I'm using VMs, so this is as simple as adding two disks). This also assumes that the disk device names are sd*, so make adjustments according to your system.

My Setup

1st disk - 2GB for boot
2nd disk - 30GB for OS

%pre section of config

In your kickstart config you will need a %pre section that does the following in order:

1. Creates an LVM physical volume on the device. This does a force (-ff) and overwrites any data there so be careful. -y just tells pvcreate to say yes to any "are you sure" messages.

2. Creates an LVM volume group named vg_system on the physical volume

This is all being redirected to /dev/tty1 so you can see the output during %pre

%pre
pvcreate -y -ff /dev/sdb &> /dev/tty1
vgcreate vg_system /dev/sdb &> /dev/tty1
%end

Main section of config

In this main section of your config you will need something similar to this, adjust for the partitions and sizes you want. In order, this will:

1. Wipe out sda and initialize the disk if new

2. Put a single boot partition on it that fills the drive

3. Tells the kickstart to use the existing volume group created in the %pre

4. Creates a logical volume in the volume group for root (/) that fills the disk asside from swap

5. Creates a logical volume in the volume group for swap of 4GB

clearpart --drives=sda --initlabel --all
part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sda
volgroup vg_system --useexisting
logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_system --grow --size=1024
logvol swap --name=lv_swap --vgname=vg_system --grow --size=4096 --maxsize=4096

If you don't have a base kickstart config to work with look on a CentOS/RedHat box in root's home directory for an anaconda-ks.cfg which is the kickstart equivalent of how that system was installed