[Solved] Re: LVM preseed install fails on physical server

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Sandeep Raman <sandeep.raman@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm seeing the same issue per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740271. I've updated the bug with my comments.

┌──────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├───────────────────────┐
    │                                                                     │
    │                  Volume group name already in use                   │
    │ The volume group name used to automatically partition using LVM is  │
    │ already in use. Lowering the priority for configuration questions   │
    │ will allow you to specify an alternative name.                      │
    │                                                                     │
    │     <Go Back>                                        <Continue>     │
    │                                                                     │
    └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Has anyone seen this before and/or know of a way to sort this?

Cheers,

Sandeep.

There was no need to zero/wipe disk. All that needed to be done was remove the logical volume.

I booted off gparted iso and from the cli lvremove <<vg_name>>

Rebooted and booted with the OS iso. The preseed was able to partition the disk w/o any issue.

However grub failed per https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666974. The workaround mentioned in the bug helped.

I can work around
it if I set grub-installer/only_debian to false, as this skips directly
to step 2 which then obeys the preseeded bootdev properly.

Finally the OS got installed via preseed.

Cheers,

Sandeep.