Hello list, This is the first time I am installing gentoo. In the past I've used RH and Debian. After getting a fresh gentoo distribution I ran into a problem right at the beginning of the installation steps. When using lvm to create a volume group I get:
vgcreate vg /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line some outputs of previous commands follow below. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- Valmor vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group pvcreate /dev/hda3 pvcreate -- physical volume "/dev/hda3" successfully created ls -l /dev/hda3 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Dec 18 15:43 /dev/hda3 -> ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 pvdisplay /dev/hda3 pvdisplay -- "/dev/hda3" is a new physical volume of 55.51 GB pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7296. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1)software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2)booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FIDSK) Command: p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 50 297202+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 51 7296 58203495 83 Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
