>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:12 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to create a logical volume, consisting of five 3390-3 (2.2G ea) > dasd volumes. > > The volumes are attached to the vm as device addresses 202-206 in r/w mode. > > Using Yast, all goes well, until I try to apply the changes. Then I get a > message saying: > > > Failure occurred during following action: > Creating volume group system > > System error code was: -4010 > > I'm relatively new to Linux on VM and this is my first attempt to create a > SLES 10 system. I do not know where to look up this error code.
I'm not exactly new, and I don't know either. So, question time... Did you format all the volumes and put a partition on them before trying to do the LVM setup? If so, what output do you get from the following commands: vgscan pvscan vgdisplay pvdisplay Worst comes to worst, what happens when you try to create things manually: vgscan vgcreate VGNAME /dev/dasdx1 /dev/dasdy1 /dev/dasdz1 ... Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
