Re: PXE netinst: No disk drive was detected. (Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available")

2012-02-03 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > I posted the solution elsewhere in this thread. But since I changed > the subject it will confuse some mail readers and therefore will add > an additional follow-up here. > > The solution is that the netboot.tar.gz files need to be in sync with >

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > These problems are due to the mismatch between the new udeb files in > the 6.0.4 point release and the previous 6.0.3 netboot files on my > (and your) server.  The netboot files needed to be updated.  Updating > them solved my problem.  And now

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-02-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Chris Hiestand wrote: > On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes >>> other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot >>> images). Suddenly partman has stopped working i

Re: PXE netinst: No disk drive was detected. (Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available")

2012-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: > > Would you mind running a test install and seeing if things are still > > working for you? If you have a chance anyway. > > > > I've now also reproduced the problem with the 32-bit kernel as well. > > And it failed! I confirmed this on both i386 and a

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-02-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: > > I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes > > other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot > > images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > > ... > >

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes > other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot > images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > ... > > !! ERROR: Logical Volume Manager not availab

PXE netinst: No disk drive was detected. (Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available")

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Since I am using a Stable netboot I am not updating it until Wheezy. > > So I can't confirm or deny the problem here. > > Would you mind running a test install and seeing if things are still > working for you? If you have a chance anyway. > > I've now

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Jan 31, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes >> other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot >> images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > > If you swap back in the previous netboot i

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: >> I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes >> other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot >> images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > > If you swap back

Re: Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes > other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot > images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: If you swap back in the previous netboot image does that restore the working

Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-30 Thread Chris Hiestand
artition disks > --- > > !! ERROR: Logical Volume Manager not available > > The current kernel doesn't support the Logical Volume Manager. You may need > to load the lvm-mod module. I'm not even creating an LVM-managed partition, just a basic one: > d-i partman

Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Noah Dain wrote: > > How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the > > other way around? LVM on top of md RAID (there is also device-mapper RAID, now), so lvm has PVs that are md devices. > > Or am I worrying unnecessarily: Is it possible to mix them

Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-18 Thread Noah Dain
On 1/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to set up an array of two hard disks as a software RAID in > and AMD64 box. TO have some flexibility, I'm also planning to use LVM. > How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the > other way around? >

Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-18 Thread hendrik
I'm planning to set up an array of two hard disks as a software RAID in and AMD64 box. TO have some flexibility, I'm also planning to use LVM. How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the other way around? Or am I worrying unnecessarily: Is it possible to mix them arbi

Re: Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-12 Thread Corey Ralph
Hi Neal, On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Neal Lippman wrote: 1) Which lvm package to install? There are two obvious choices, lvm10 and lvm2. While lvm2 is the new rewrite, which is supposedly "stable", it apparently lacks some features and according to the debian.org description of the pa

Linux logical volume manager - a few questions

2003-08-02 Thread Neal Lippman
I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [a whole bunch of things about LVM, initrd, etc.] Thanks to you and Shyamal for the information. As always, I learnt something new. I guess I need more knowledge on LVM and initrd. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> The issue that concerns me with LVS is is that it has a Alan> command to create an initrd image for booting. I suspect Alan> that it is creating something that loads the lvm modules in Alan> the kernel, but the documen

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andy" == Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> I don't know jack about LVM, but from reading other posts Andy> and docs it seems that having the root partition on a Andy> filesystem that is loaded as a module is generally a bad Andy> idea. It makes perfect sense to

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 28 September 2002 6:38 am, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel > > has created an ini

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel has > created an initrd image which it loads on boot and uses to load the ext3 > mo

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 September 2002 6:09 pm, Q. Gong wrote: > I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 > file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files > which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed > steps. > I went back and r

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-26 Thread Q. Gong
I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed steps. Good luck, Qian On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Sept

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:19 am, Tom Allison wrote: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? I did, although I did not replace my root partition, I did with all the others. The reason I didn't try and replace the root partition was that the docs says you need to create an

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-24T14:28:50Z, Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you switch the root partition to lvm? I left my root partition untouched, so I can't give advice for that final step. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Re: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? Re: I did. How do you switch the root partition to lvm? (I have only "/" left) And after that, what modifications do I need to do in /etc/lilo.conf for the boot to be a success? Yours Emil -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-24T09:19:29Z, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? I did. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Allison
Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? -- The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.