Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
The problem with having / on an LVM volume set is that LILO can't handle it. Take this scenario as an example: mt LVM volume set spans 3 disks, that means a root file system could potentially be on any of those disks. LILO would have to analyse the LVM volume set and work it out - a lot of work for a boot loader. Bear in mind that LILO does not strictly support software RAID root partitions (although you can get around the problem for RAID-1 only). Glad you sorted your problem out anyway. - Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM Well, I succeeded today setting Up LM9.0 with LVM. I believe the pbm was that I used Linux_extended (0x85) partition type instead of plain Extended. I have now the following setup: SWAP hda1 Primary /boot hda5 Extended Ext2 / hda6 Extended ReiserFS LVM Extended /usr ReiserFS /home ReiserFS /opt ReiserFS /var ReiserFS /tmp ReiserFS and it's all working fine. Just 2 comments: - it would be nice to have the option to have / in the LV as well - when drakdisk starts spitting out errors it's hard to make it behave again without restarting... maybe the error handling could be frendlier :) Otherwise, LM9.0 looks really good, it feels definitely faster than 8.2 I'm going to set it up on 4 boxes so I guess I'll have some more to report. Thanks Mandrake. /Fred On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:09, Alan Hughes wrote: I'm surpised! I installed 9.0 this morning with / as a normal ReiserFS partition, a swap partition and an LVM partition that spanned the remainder of the disk plus two other disks. I have the same set of partitions on my LVM volume (although the sizes are different - much larger disks) and had no problems. I only used the installer. However at one time I did have a problem with LVM (must have been about Beta 3 or 4) which Pixel though he had fixed. It was OK for me afterwards, but maybe I did'nt test it well enough. - Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM Hi I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far... The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram P3 933MHz The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo. Scenario A -- 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing: swap700Mb /boot30Mb Linux native (0x82) / 250Mb Linux native (0x82) LVM remaining of space (0x8e) 2) started the LM installer 3) during the partitioning step: - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS - selected the LVM Add to LVM and named it lv1 (a new tab lv1 appeared alongside hda) - selected the lv1 tab - created the following for the LVM: - /usr5500Mb ReiserFS - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS - /opt2500Mb ReiserFS - /var4200Mb ReiserFS - /tmp1200Mb ReiserFS - clicked done - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks for bad blocks for the swap and /boot - made a prayer and clicked ok after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot be formatted... Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got error msgs lvremove failed (or something equivalent). Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek. Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even create the LVM (0x8e) partition... Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no more success... So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from you :) I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk correctly. I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both installation worked 1st time. What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;) Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks. /Fred
Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 18:28, Alan Hughes wrote: The problem with having / on an LVM volume set is that LILO can't handle it. Take this scenario as an example: mt LVM volume set spans 3 disks, that means a root file system could potentially be on any of those disks. LILO would have to analyse the LVM volume set and work it out - a lot of work for a boot loader. Bear in mind that LILO does not strictly support software RAID root partitions (although you can get around the problem for RAID-1 only). Glad you sorted your problem out anyway. Thanks Alan.
Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
I'm surpised! I installed 9.0 this morning with / as a normal ReiserFS partition, a swap partition and an LVM partition that spanned the remainder of the disk plus two other disks. I have the same set of partitions on my LVM volume (although the sizes are different - much larger disks) and had no problems. I only used the installer. However at one time I did have a problem with LVM (must have been about Beta 3 or 4) which Pixel though he had fixed. It was OK for me afterwards, but maybe I did'nt test it well enough. - Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM Hi I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far... The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram P3 933MHz The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo. Scenario A -- 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing: swap700Mb /boot30Mb Linux native (0x82) / 250Mb Linux native (0x82) LVM remaining of space (0x8e) 2) started the LM installer 3) during the partitioning step: - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS - selected the LVM Add to LVM and named it lv1 (a new tab lv1 appeared alongside hda) - selected the lv1 tab - created the following for the LVM: - /usr5500Mb ReiserFS - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS - /opt2500Mb ReiserFS - /var4200Mb ReiserFS - /tmp1200Mb ReiserFS - clicked done - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks for bad blocks for the swap and /boot - made a prayer and clicked ok after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot be formatted... Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got error msgs lvremove failed (or something equivalent). Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek. Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even create the LVM (0x8e) partition... Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no more success... So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from you :) I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk correctly. I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both installation worked 1st time. What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;) Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks. /Fred
Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
Well, I succeeded today setting Up LM9.0 with LVM. I believe the pbm was that I used Linux_extended (0x85) partition type instead of plain Extended. I have now the following setup: SWAP hda1 Primary /boot hda5 Extended Ext2 / hda6 Extended ReiserFS LVM Extended /usr ReiserFS /home ReiserFS /opt ReiserFS /var ReiserFS /tmp ReiserFS and it's all working fine. Just 2 comments: - it would be nice to have the option to have / in the LV as well - when drakdisk starts spitting out errors it's hard to make it behave again without restarting... maybe the error handling could be frendlier :) Otherwise, LM9.0 looks really good, it feels definitely faster than 8.2 I'm going to set it up on 4 boxes so I guess I'll have some more to report. Thanks Mandrake. /Fred On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:09, Alan Hughes wrote: I'm surpised! I installed 9.0 this morning with / as a normal ReiserFS partition, a swap partition and an LVM partition that spanned the remainder of the disk plus two other disks. I have the same set of partitions on my LVM volume (although the sizes are different - much larger disks) and had no problems. I only used the installer. However at one time I did have a problem with LVM (must have been about Beta 3 or 4) which Pixel though he had fixed. It was OK for me afterwards, but maybe I did'nt test it well enough. - Original Message - From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM Hi I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far... The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram P3 933MHz The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo. Scenario A -- 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing: swap700Mb /boot30Mb Linux native (0x82) / 250Mb Linux native (0x82) LVM remaining of space (0x8e) 2) started the LM installer 3) during the partitioning step: - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS - selected the LVM Add to LVM and named it lv1 (a new tab lv1 appeared alongside hda) - selected the lv1 tab - created the following for the LVM: - /usr5500Mb ReiserFS - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS - /opt2500Mb ReiserFS - /var4200Mb ReiserFS - /tmp1200Mb ReiserFS - clicked done - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks for bad blocks for the swap and /boot - made a prayer and clicked ok after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot be formatted... Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got error msgs lvremove failed (or something equivalent). Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek. Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even create the LVM (0x8e) partition... Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no more success... So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from you :) I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk correctly. I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both installation worked 1st time. What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;) Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks. /Fred -- \|||/ ( / \ ) ( O O ) __oOOo-( )-oOOo__ Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED Gentoo Linux / Current Linux kernel 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 / SMP __Oooo___ oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)
[Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
Hi I have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far... The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram P3 933MHz The first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having / part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo. Scenario A -- 1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created - a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing: swap700Mb /boot30Mb Linux native (0x82) / 250Mb Linux native (0x82) LVM remaining of space (0x8e) 2) started the LM installer 3) during the partitioning step: - changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS - selected the LVM Add to LVM and named it lv1 (a new tab lv1 appeared alongside hda) - selected the lv1 tab - created the following for the LVM: - /usr5500Mb ReiserFS - /home 3500Mb ReiserFS - /opt2500Mb ReiserFS - /var4200Mb ReiserFS - /tmp1200Mb ReiserFS - clicked done - Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checks for bad blocks for the swap and /boot - made a prayer and clicked ok after a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannot be formatted... Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I got error msgs lvremove failed (or something equivalent). Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek. Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried again using only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not even create the LVM (0x8e) partition... Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using same partitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, no more success... So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using only drakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear from you :) I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdisk correctly. I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another box using LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and both installation worked 1st time. What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;) Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks. /Fred
Re: [Cooker] LM9.0: Setting up LVM
Please remove my name from the mailing list Frederic Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: HiI have been trying to setup LM9.0 using LVM with no success so far...The box is a vanilla Dell 4100 with a 20Gb HD, 256MB Ram P3 933MHzThe first pbm is that / cannot be part of the LVM... (had no pbm having/ part of the LVM on RH (null) and Gentoo.Scenario A--1) ran fdisk /dev/hda from tomsrtbt and created- a Linux extended partition (0x85) containing:swap 700Mb/boot 30Mb Linux native (0x82)/ 250Mb Linux native (0x82)LVM remaining of space (0x8e)2) started the LM installer3) during the partitioning step:- changed the / type (0x82) to ReiserFS- selected the LVM "Add to LVM" and named it "lv1"(a new tab "lv1" appeared alongside "hda")- selected the "lv1" tab- created the following for the LVM:- /usr 5500Mb ReiserFS- /home 3500Mb ReiserFS- /opt 2500Mb ReiserFS- /var 4200Mb ! ReiserFS- /tmp 1200Mb ReiserFS- clicked "done"- Selected all partitions to be formatted incl. extra checksfor bad blocks for the swap and /boot- made a prayer and clicked okafter a while I get an error that /dev/hda7 (/ in this scenario) cannotbe formatted...Tried to go back and clear all the partitions to start again and I goterror msgs "lvremove failed" (or something equivalent).Tried to backtrack evenmore until drakdisk was up shit creek.Rebooted under tomsrtbt and cleaned up all partitions then tried againusing only drakdisk from a clean disk, the bloody thing would not evencreate the LVM (0x8e) partition...Tried again with partioning from fdisk (tomsrtbt) and using samepartitioning as above with linux native type instead of ReiserFS, nomore success...So basically, If someone had success setting up LVM in LM9.0 using onlydrakdisk or a combination of fdisk/drakdisk then I'd like to hear fr! omyou :)I cannot believe it's not working so maybe I'm not using drakdiskcorrectly.I've got a laptop using LVM from a RH (null) install and another boxusing LVM from a Gentoo install (this box has 3 HDs) and bothinstallation worked 1st time.What is wrong with drakdisk or with me ;)Ideas, suggestions much appreciated. Thanks./FredDo you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
