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Re: LVM installation



Hello Marc,

>     I seem to recall that you have to first partition the disks using a 
> specific format type (fd?), then use those predefined partitions to 
> complete the LVM setup. The idea is that you must define the physical 
> layout so LVM can make a virtual layout on the disks. I did this with my 
> rx4640-4 to create a software raid structure, and got a very similar 
> error when I failed to create partitions of type fd before attempting to 
> define the software raid.
>     You may already understand all this (or my memory could be horribly 
> wrong), in which case you should probably just ignore me =)

This is precisely what I've done (create a LVM partition first). But
since LVM now appears in the installation choice, I thought all the
process was performed automatically.

	Émeric



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