The problem was the lack of a partition on the drive. I manually partitioned each one and was able to create the LVM.
Thanks for the responses. Chuck Kreiter Lead Systems Programmer State Auto Insurance -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nix, Robert P. Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLES 10 LVM problem Work-around: Start yast as "yast &", so that it runs in the background, and leaves you with a command prompt. Activate and format the disks as normal, but then drop back to your command prompt and, for each disk, enter the command "fdasd -a /dev/dasd[abc...]". This will add a partition to the disk (the step that Novell forgot to do for LVM). Once you have this done, go back to the GUI, deactivate and then activate the disks, so that the partition table will be read, and then proceed as normal. You shouldn't get the System error. The basic problem is that the LVM set-up tries to use the partitioned disk (such as /dev/dasdb1), but nothing has actually partitioned the disks prior to that point. This is now an open problem with Novell, as yet unresolved. -- .~. Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\ RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." * This message was scanned by the corporate mail server for viruses and objectionable content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
