What is causing this error when I use pvcreate? I thought I remembered seeing something sometime ago about this --? I've used a mknod script I found on the list, run mkinitrd and zipl -- ?
I'm stuck. - Matt scodw2:/ # pvcreate /dev/dasdaf1 pvcreate -- can't open physical volume "/dev/dasdaf1" to get its size /proc/dasd/devices: 021f(ECKD) at ( 94:124) is dasdaf : active at blocksize: 4096, 600840 blocks, 2347 MB scodw2:/ # fdasd -a /dev/dasdaf auto-creating one partition for the whole disk... writing volume label... writing VTOC... rereading partition table... scodw2:/ # fdasd -p /dev/dasdaf reading volume label: VOL1 reading vtoc : ok Disk /dev/dasdaf: 3338 cylinders, 15 tracks per cylinder, 12 blocks per track 4096 bytes per block volume label: VOL1, volume identifier: 0X021F maximum partition number: 3 -----------tracks---------- Device start end length Id System /dev/dasdaf1 2 50069 50068 1 Linux native Does't show up --- scodw2:/ # mke2fs /dev/dasda dasda dasda2 dasdaa dasdab dasdac dasdae dasdag dasdai dasdai2 dasdaj dasdaj2 dasda1 dasda3 dasdaa1 dasdab1 dasdad dasdaf dasdah dasdai1 dasdai3 dasdaj1 dasdaj3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390