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Post subject: [Solved] Logical Volumes not being seen by installer.
 Posted: 05.04.2011, 20:18
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Hello,
I wanted to give aptosid a spin after reading some good things about it as compared to my previous distro (archlinux). However I can't seem to get it installed.
My hard drive has 3 partitions:
sda1 boot
sda2 LVM
sda3 data
After I make my volume group and then 7 logical volumes, vgchange -ay to make them active, I start the installer and only see sda1 and sda3. I can't figure out how to install to the logical volumes? I also don't seem to have a .sidconfig. I am running the latest xfce release.
Any help would be awesome!
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Post subject: RE: Frustrated with the installer... (LVM)
Posted: 05.04.2011, 20:52
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Posted: 05.04.2011, 21:00
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I've come to that page a bunch searching for LVM related articles. It only tells you how to make LVM layouts and not how to get the installer to work with them.
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Posted: 05.04.2011, 21:17
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| Please try those *scan command after activating to make your lvs known to the kernel
Code:
pvscan
vgscan
lvscan
Then start the installer. |
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Posted: 05.04.2011, 21:22
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I did a 'vgchange -ay' it said activating 7 logical volumes.
pvscan:
PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [300.01 GiB...
vgscan:
Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2...
lvscan:
Show 7 logical volumes as active...
installer (under partitioning):
Root-Partition: only shows /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 |
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Post subject: [Solved] Frustrated with the installer... (LVM)
Posted: 05.04.2011, 21:43
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| The installer requires that the partitions have a filesystem on them. Even if it is going to re-format root. |
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Post subject: RE: [Solved] Frustrated with the installer... (LVM)
Posted: 05.09.2011, 09:36
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| I am facing a similar problem. I would like to do a reinstall keeping the data in one of the LV. I have just one PV with one VG containing 4 LV and a separate boot partition. My problem is that the liveCD does not recognise the LV at all (they are designed /dev/sda1-4) and they are not recognised by lvm2. I guess that is not a big problem. The big issue is that the boot partition does not appear to be recognised at all by the liveCD (leave alone the installed). If if do fdisk -l only the 4 LV appear... |
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Post subject: RE: [Solved] Frustrated with the installer... (LVM)
Posted: 05.09.2011, 10:10
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| LVs are detected by the live CD, but are only accepted by the installer as installation target if they're also formatted with a linux filesystem (preferably ext4); if you ignore your other LVs as install targets, the installer won't touch them. |
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