Re: [suse-autoinstall] Partitioning/LVM

5 Jul 2002


      Helo,
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Am Freitag, 5. Juli 2002 04:50 schrieb Anas Nashif:
This problem, is 'partly' solved in the updated package.
I use the package 
rpm -qa | grep -i auto
Yast2-trans-autoinst-2.5.14-6
Yast2-module-autoinst-2.5.26-0
Are there newer ones?
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The only problem currently available is when you try to configure LVM using
autoinstall on an already configured disk, i.e. you installed LVM and
now you are trying to install again. Then yast might complain that the
VG is already there. I have dome several tests and with a blank harddsik
(or a harddisk without previous LVM configuration) it works fine.
After I fail wiht autoinstallation, i do following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=100
With this, the partition table should be erased, and a new LVM should be 
possible.
My already listing:

 <partitioning config:type="list">
   <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">
              <partition>
                <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
                <crypt_key/>
                <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap
                </filesystem>
                <filesystem_id config:type="integer">130</filesystem_id>
                <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
                <format config:type="boolean">true
                </format>
                <mount/>
                <size>256M</size>
                <type>Linux swap</type>
              </partition>
              <partition>
                <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
                <crypt_key/>
                <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>
                <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
                <partiton_type>primary</partiton_type>
                <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                <mount>/boot</mount>
                <size>15M</size>
                <type>Linux native</type>
              </partition>
              <partition>
                <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">false</crypt_fs>
                <crypt_key/>
                <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
                <filesystem_id config:type="integer">131</filesystem_id>
                <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
                <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
                <mount>/</mount>
                <size>max</size>
                <type>Linux native</type>
              </partition>
        </partitions>
        <reuse>all</reuse>
   </drive>
   <drive>
       <device>/dev/sdb</device>
       <reuse>all</reuse>
       <partitions config:type="list">
           <partition>
                <filesystem_type>LV</filesystem_type>
                <size>max</size>
                <type>lvm</type>
                <lvm_group>system</lvm_group>
           </partition>
       </partitions>
   </drive>
 </partitioning>
 <lvm config:type="list">
    <lvm_group>
       <pesize>4M</pesize>
       <lvm_name>system</lvm_name>
       <logical_volumes config:type="list">
            <lv>
                <lv_format content:type="boolean">true</lv_format>
                <lv_fs>reiser</lv_fs>
                <lv_mount>/backup</lv_mount>
                <lv_name>backuplv</lv_name>
                <lv_size>5GB</lv_size>
            </lv>
       </logical_volumes>
    </lvm_group>
</lvm>

Ther error message are:
LVM-Fehler:
vgcreate -A n -s 4096k system /dev/sdb1
vgcreate -- ERROR "pv_read():read" reading physical volumes

Would be nice if you could help me
Georg Wallner