On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:08:27 +0100 Vincent Van Houtte <[email protected]> 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
