It looks like the Logical Volume Manager or Group is having a problem. Basically you have the following: 1 PV - physical volume - the basic partiton that gets added to the LVM. Typically either a standard primary or logical partition. 2 PE -- physical extent -- subset of a PV, every PV has a bunch of equal sized pieces of disk space called PE's. (Although if you have differrent LV groups, you can also have differrent size PE's) 3 LV -- logical volume - group of LEs, you can mount something like /home on an LV. 4 VG -- volume group -- group of volumes (makes sense). THere are 2 ways to create an LVM Volume Group in RHEL3. 1) set it up during the install (GRAPHICAL MODE) using disk druid; OR 2) it is possible to add them later after the install, (fyi n/a here) You might try getting around your install problem by actually running fdisk as early as you can in the install process, maybe from another terminal window (Ctrl - Alt_ F4 lets say). If you can get the kernel into ram (ramdisk) then you should be able to switch to a command prompt and do these things as root. 1. Create a physical volume (PV) # pvcreate /dev/hdd # for example if your hdd is the fourth device on the chain THen you should view it with fdisk to see what you have. If you have something, try # pvcreate /dev/hdd2 # creates a new PV on that partition 2. Create a volume group with syntax # vgcreate volume_group_name /dev/hdd2 / add to the size of it with the command # vgextend volume_group_name /dev/sda 3. Create a logical volume with the syntax # lvcreate -l number_of_PEs volume_group_name -n logicalvol This will create a device called /dev/volume_group_name/logicalvol ALso make sure that /etc/fstab looks like the following: LABEL=/home/marc /home/marc ext3 defaults 1 2 Also you should do # e2label /dev/volume_group_name/logicalvol /home/marc which creates a label for the directory. All for now, I hope that helps somewhat. Cheers Marc On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:33:33 -0800, Tom Arnold <tom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm attempting to do an initial install on a Pentium 4 system running 1GB > memory and 200 GB disk. > > The install fails with this error message on each attempt.... > > File :/usr/src/build/475969-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line > 201 in setupDevice raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s: %(self.name,) > > SystemError: lvcreate failed for LogVol00 > > /usr/src/build/475969-i386/install/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py(2051)setupDevic > e) > > -> raise SystemError, "lvcreate failed for %s" %(self.name,) > > I've never had a problem like this in past installations. Any thoughts on > this would be really helpful. > > -- > Tom Arnold, CISSP, ISSMP, CFS > Partner > PSC > Expert services and system solutions for companies accepting or processing > electronic payments > > PGP Fingerprint: 8BE4 B179 0E5D D141 AC96 A732 08F7 8E43 89AE 009F > PGP Public Key Server: ldap://keyserver.pgp.com > Direct: +1.408.228.0961 ex. 102 > Mobile: +1.408.406.1758 > Email: tom@xxxxxxxxx > Web: http://www.paysw.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
