On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:08:27 +0100 Vincent Van Houtte <vvh@synergylaw.be> wrote:
Hello,
After failing miserably for several hours, I found out that:
aif showed all three times the error 'process_filesystem error': error creating filesystem lvm-pv on /dev/sda
This is due to not having made a partition on the device before making it an lvm-pv.
yeah, if you want to make a partition an lvm-pv, the partition should obviously exist first.
You are obviously right, but I think it should be made more clear, maybe by only showing available partitions instead of devices in that stage of the install process. For me it was my first experience with LVM, and I didn't know LVM works on top of partitions instead of devices (which, I know, is my fault entirely).
Vincent
you should be able to make any block device an LVM physical volume, it doesn't need to be a partition. Dieter