SLES9 PPC LVM Errors running second time on same client

13 Aug 2004

      Hello,

I am using SLES9 for PPC on JS20 blade server.
Running autoyast with LVM  on already installed client I am getting
following error:
"LVM Error
lvremove -f -A n /dev/system/homelv
/dev/hda1: open failed: No such device or address"

If I reboot the machine and run autoyast installation again without any
changes anything works ok and no errors occur. So I always need to start
installation twice if the client already had LVM. I do not really
understand the error message above, /dev/hda1 is a prepboot partition on
the pseries client and is not used for LVM.
I guess, there is a way to avoid starting installation twice in order to
get it running.

Any help would be highly appreciated...

Here is my partitioning section in the autoyast.xml file:

<partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/hda</device>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
<crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
            <crypt_key></crypt_key>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
<partition_type>primary</partition_type>

            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount></mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">65</partition_id>
            <size>16M</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
<crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
            <crypt_key></crypt_key>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
<partition_type>primary</partition_type>

            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <fstopt>noatime,acl</fstopt>
            <label></label>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">device</mountby>
            <noauto config:type="boolean">false</noauto>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <size>2000M</size>
          </partition>

          <partition>
<lvm_group>system</lvm_group>
<crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
            <crypt_key></crypt_key>
<partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
<partition_type>primary</partition_type>

            <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount></mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">142</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>

<drive>
        <use>all</use>
        <device>/dev/system</device>
        <is_lvm_vg config:type="boolean">true</is_lvm_vg>
        <partitions config:type="list">

<partition>
                    <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
                    <lv_name>usrlv</lv_name>
                    <mount>/usr</mount>
                   <size>1200mb</size>
                </partition>

<partition>
                    <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
                    <lv_name>varlv</lv_name>
                    <mount>/var</mount>
                   <size>400mb</size>
                </partition>

   <partition>
               <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
                 <lv_name>homelv</lv_name>
                  <mount>/home</mount>
                    <size>1000mb</size>
                    </partition>

               </partitions>
                <pesize>4M</pesize>
        </drive>
    </partitioning>

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards,

Tomas Baublys

 IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE)  pSeries and AIX

 pSeries Technical Sales Support
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