Bug#247051: Package: installation-reports - laptop /lvm root

[Gordon Heydon <gordon@heydon.com.au>]

Hello,

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:29, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Gordon Heydon <gordon@heydon.com.au> [2004-05-04 10:25]:
> > > Yeah, that's my assumption too.  I've been working on switching d-i
> > > from LVM1 to LVM2, but it's waited for a bug in parted to be fixed
> > > (parted finds lvm1, but not lvm2 devices, see
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/247174).
> > > 
> > I don't know, but I wouldn't think that that would be that hard.
> 
> I don't know... I've never had a look at parted... if you want to take
> a look, be my guest.  The program used by d-i to find devices is
> simple:
> 

> This links against parted... it shows lvm1 but not lvm2 devices.

Basically I took a look at this, and it is the standard libparted, which
is linked against the standard libparted1.6-dev so there is no, special
version of parted, AFAICS

so what needs to be done is the upstream version of libparted needs to
be modified to recognise the new device mapper for 2.6. So until then,
lvm2 cannot be used with the debian-installer. Which means that if you
want to use 2.6 and lvm you need to use 2.4 to install the system and
then upgrade to 2.6 and lvm2, which I do not consider a big ask for
anyone.

So I am going to put 2.6 on the back burner at this stage. And help with
the lvm root stuff. I will test and I am quite happy to test the daily
builds to see it by the next beta we can have the root file system on a
lvm.

Gordon.