Im installing CentOS5.1 on an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop with AMD Turion64 and ATI X700 128MB gfx card.
I want to partition my 80MB ATA disk as LVM, so I:
Choose custom partition. delete all existing partitions. add one LVM vg partition taking up entire disk. I do not change any default options. I then click the LVM button to add my logical volumes as follows:
5GB / 8GB /home 5GB /tmp 4GB /var 1GB swap
all are ext3 partitions.
I exit the LVM dialogue and click Next to continue with the partitioning, and... it all crashes. I get a debug error box with lots of unintelligible errors that I am completely unfamiliar with. I click OK on the error dialogue and the installation freezes and I can only power off with the button. I will probably look for this on bug tracker and log a bug report if I don't find a similar case, but I wanted to mail the list first (because it's easier) and ask if anyone knows of the issue and how to get around it?
thanks, andrew
Andrew Henry wrote:
Im installing CentOS5.1 on an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop with AMD Turion64 and ATI X700 128MB gfx card.
I want to partition my 80MB ATA disk as LVM, so I:
Choose custom partition. delete all existing partitions. add one LVM vg partition taking up entire disk. I do not change any default options. I then click the LVM button to add my logical volumes as follows:
5GB / 8GB /home 5GB /tmp 4GB /var 1GB swap
all are ext3 partitions.
I exit the LVM dialogue and click Next to continue with the partitioning, and... it all crashes. I get a debug error box with lots of unintelligible errors that I am completely unfamiliar with. I click OK on the error dialogue and the installation freezes and I can only power off with the button. I will probably look for this on bug tracker and log a bug report if I don't find a similar case, but I wanted to mail the list first (because it's easier) and ask if anyone knows of the issue and how to get around it?
I would suggest that you try the install by shrinking the / partition in the LVM tab and install with only / and swap ... thent you can later add /home and /tmp (and var too, though harder, if you want) after the install and see if that has any effect.
This smells like something in LVM and disk formating is not happy to me, but we need more info about the segfault to be sure.
Also, you can shift to Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4, Alt-F5 and see what might be happening exactly so we can try and troubleshoot.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
I would suggest that you try the install by shrinking the / partition in the LVM tab and install with only / and swap ... thent you can later add /home and /tmp (and var too, though harder, if you want) after the install and see if that has any effect.
This smells like something in LVM and disk formating is not happy to me, but we need more info about the segfault to be sure.
Also, you can shift to Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4, Alt-F5 and see what might be happening exactly so we can try and troubleshoot.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
unhandled exception:
anaconda/fsset.py line 2962 throws out an "index error: index value out of range"
I tried with just / and swap and even tried with setting the pv to 300MB less than the max size of the drive in case there was an issue with detecting drive size correctly, but same issue.
Have not tried with setting a /boot partition yet. will try that tomorrow.
--andrew
on 2/14/2008 3:21 AM Andrew Henry spake the following:
Im installing CentOS5.1 on an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop with AMD Turion64 and ATI X700 128MB gfx card.
I want to partition my 80MB ATA disk as LVM, so I:
Choose custom partition. delete all existing partitions. add one LVM vg partition taking up entire disk. I do not change any default options. I then click the LVM button to add my logical volumes as follows:
5GB / 8GB /home 5GB /tmp 4GB /var 1GB swap
all are ext3 partitions.
I exit the LVM dialogue and click Next to continue with the partitioning, and... it all crashes. I get a debug error box with lots of unintelligible errors that I am completely unfamiliar with. I click OK on the error dialogue and the installation freezes and I can only power off with the button. I will probably look for this on bug tracker and log a bug report if I don't find a similar case, but I wanted to mail the list first (because it's easier) and ask if anyone knows of the issue and how to get around it?
thanks, andrew
I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will finally boot from LVM.
Scott Silva wrote:
I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will finally boot from LVM.
that did the trick! thanks for the tip. There is no warning dialogue to tell you this during the install. Another thing I noticed is that the drive size changes to a slightly smaller size after you create partitions. Seemed a bit strange.
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:49 +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will finally boot from LVM.
that did the trick! thanks for the tip. There is no warning dialogue to tell you this during the install. Another thing I noticed is that the drive size changes to a slightly smaller size after you create partitions. Seemed a bit strange.
Normal. Default operations for things like fdisk is to operate in units of "cylinders". The first cylinder often goes completely unused except for the MBR. The last is often only partially used. In the past when drives were physically large, small in capacity, expensive, unreliable, noisy, ... I would manually partition in advance to use every last sector on the drive. I had no worries about other idiots trying to follow up on my work then. Or MS Winbloze OS's - I only did *IX as a rule.
The downside is putting up with stupid messages from utilities complaining the things don't start/end on boundaries.
Ahh! Those were the good ol' days when we were actually smarter than the tools we used! :-[ And our services were not a commodity.
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