Hi Heinz, I don't think I can remove the partition, because the EFI firmware needs the first partition of the disk to be vfat to boot from that disk. That's not a concern for this issue right now, but it will be when I want to have my / be an LVM volume mirrored across sda/sdb. --Josh On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:02:53AM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Josh, > > if a device holds a partition, LVM assumes PC style. > > Can you remove the partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1) > and use the whole device (pvcreate /dev/sdb) or go with PC style partitioning? > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:03:29PM -0400, Josh Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I hope this isn't a redundant question, I've tried looking through the mailing > > lists with no luck: > > > > I'm having a problem setting up physical volumes on an ia64 machine running a > > 2.4.18+lvm1.0.5 kernel. > > > > the disk is labelled using an "EFI GPT" disk label/partitioning arrangement. I > > currently have two partitions defined, the first is 2gb and the second is 16gb. > > I can do a pvcreate on the second, but not on the first. I've attached output > > from parted, fdisk, and pvcreate below... > > > > any ideas? > > --Josh > > > > ------ > > fdisk: > > ------ > > [root@one sbin]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sdb1 1 4428 35566479+ ee EFI GPT > > > > ------- > > parted: > > ------- > > [root@one sbin]# parted /dev/sdb print > > Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-34732.890 megabytes > > Disk label type: GPT > > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > > 1 0.017 2047.000 lba > > 2 2047.000 18733.000 lba > > > > --------- > > pvcreate: > > --------- > > [root@one sbin]# pvcreate /dev/sdb1 > > pvcreate -- invalid partition type 0xee for "/dev/sdb1" (must be 0x8e) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > *** Software bugs are stupid. > Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. > Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 > 56242 Marienrachdorf > Germany > Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 > FAX 924446 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
