On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:54:55PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:50:15PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade one of my Fedora Core 1 boxes to FC2, which has > > the root filesystem on LVM. The installer won't allow me to ugprade > > because, it seems, vgscan is returning an error. > > > The output of "lvm vgscan -v -d" from a VC whilst running the installer > > is: > > > so it doesn't recognise /dev/hda2 as a PV, for some reason. > > > Any ideas how I can get round this? > > Depends what's causing it: try turning up the verbosity (eg. vgscan -vvv) > and see if it gives a reason for avoiding hda2. Thanks a lot, that did the trick. It skipped that partition because it had a old raid superblock on it, so I ran "mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hda2" from the installer shell and vgscan was happy again. Regards, joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
