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timm

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From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 417

LVM installation failure [solved]

I've been trying to install LVM through the use of the installer; I know I could just install everything and create this later but I figure I should be able to do it this way.

Every time I set up my devices, all the other partitions are correctly set up, but when it gets to my LVM setup (which spans two drives) I get

Failed to read physical volume

errors for both of those partitions

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

**And for what it's worth, I made a mistake the last time on my setup of filesystems and hit cancel to start over, which didn't cancel but went ahead and set them up wrong.  --sigh--

I also found that if I mess up on the label/name for the lvm-lv and try to edit it to fix it, when I hit OK I get

ERROR:  ask_number $4 must be a number! not 5000M

and it dumps me out to the command prompt.

Last edited by timm (2009-11-14 21:34:11)

Aas

Member

Registered: 2009-10-27

Posts: 9

Re: LVM installation failure [solved]

Maybe it' because of this:
From official install guide:
"AIF currently doesn't help you creating
volumegroups that span multiple physical
volumes. (if you need this -unlikely- : use
vgcreate)"

I've run into same problem.

timm

Member

From: Wisconsin

Registered: 2004-02-25

Posts: 417

Re: LVM installation failure [solved]

duh - when in doubt, read the directions.

Thanks for the pointer.