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Title: [resolved] Desperado Reloaded installer using LVM
Post by: dlalias2k1 on 2012/08/31, 04:00:34

Hi,

 Sorry to be extra work for anyone. I'm not sure if I found a bug in the installer or if the translation of the instructions is missing something vital.

I found:
http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=2312&highlight=lvm+installer

and
http://wiki.siduction.de/index.php?title=aptosid_unter_der_Kontrolle_des_Logical_Volume_Manager_installieren

Basically, I've tried to setup a number of LogicalVolumes both manually and using the sidu-disk-center. pvscan, vgscan and lvscan all return seemingly valid data. I have made EXT4 filesystems on all the volumes, however when I start the sidu-installer it will successfully let me set the root LV but it won't display the other LVs when I want to assign them at the Mountpoint Definitions stage. The only device it shows at the time is mapper/saturn-root.

Did I miss something important in my search, or is it a bug?

Thanks!

Title: Desperado Reloaded installer using LVM
Post by: michaaa62 on 2012/08/31, 08:03:29

Short check list:

Were you activating the remaining LVs during setup?
Did you try to set them all up in the installer?
Are the remaining LVs formatted with a file system or raw devices?

Title: Re: Desperado Reloaded installer using LVM
Post by: dlalias2k1 on 2012/08/31, 08:43:33

Quote from: "michaaa62"

Were you activating the remaining LVs during setup?

I believe, I hit the activate to switch actions after doing the create steps in sidu-disk-center. After it completed, I'd run lvscan in a terminal window and get:
ACTIVE '/dev/saturn/root' [10.0 GiB] inherit
ACTIVE '/dev/saturn/home' [9.0 GiB] Inherit

Quote from: "michaaa62"

Did you try to set them all up in the installer?

all the logical volumes are listed at the "Root File System" selection screen. It lets me choose to put my root on:
mapper/saturn-root
sda
saturn/root
saturn/home

Quote from: "michaaa62"

Are the remaining LVs formatted with a file system or raw devices?

I've tried raw and I've tried after i've formatted them with:
mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/saturn/home
mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/saturn/root

Did a miss a step on activating the LVs?

Title: Re: Desperado Reloaded installer using LVM
Post by: michaaa62 on 2012/08/31, 10:56:55

During installation there is a step to add partition for some given mount points like /boot etc. and there is an option to create custom mount points. I am not sure if /home is one of the given mount points, but you might add it as a custom mount point.

Title: RE: Re: Desperado Reloaded installer using LVM
Post by: dlalias2k1 on 2012/09/03, 20:32:35

Yea, It wasn't showing the other LVs on the mount point page as options under devices/labels. For whatever reason, I shutdown the computer and tried again the next day and didn't have a problem, So i'm not sure what I missed the first time around.

Thanks!