Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 213746
LVMs "disappear" during installation
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:34 EDT
Description of problem: LVMs "disappear" during installation (on a 224M machine) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11.1.3-1 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot installation by restricting your machine to 224M 2. Use an LVM as / (be it a prexisting LVM or one you creatre during installation). I have not tried with other mount points like /usr 3. At one point you get the warning that due to low memory, swap has to be activated and thus, partition table written. Click on OK 4. When anaconda tries to format/mount the LVM it does not find it and installation aborts Actual results: Installation aborts Expected results: Obvious Additional info: I redid the installtion and my LVMs were visible all of it then they disappeared at this point a /dev filesystem and that this was mounted <b>two</b> times. So my explanation is that anaconda mounted that file system and activated the LVMs so they became visible under /dev but the it mounted the /dev filesytem a second time (probably from an image existing on the CD) and this hid the /dev/VolGroup/LVM entries The machine was 256 Meg RAM laptop whose video used 32 Megs RAM as Video memory (thus the funny 224M RAM usable by Linux). I don't know if machines with more memory (where anaconda does not need to prematurealy write partition table and activate swap) exhibit the same problem I have tried both with a preexiting LVM and one created during installation with identical results. I am not sure I tried text mode.
Can you provide the dump that you received?
What dump? If you are referring to the list of mounted volumes with /dev mounted two times I redid the installation and this disn't reproduce so either the second /dev was alreday ujnmounted when I checked, or I figured it out. In case I didn't my memory is that the second /dev mounted was at the end of the list when I did a mount. However what was _very_ reproducible is that installation did not complete: it went to the checking dependencies phase then the preparing to install phase, then to the next screen with the progress bar about installed software and at this point it failed. By shifting around virtual consoles I saw that mkfs had been unable to find the /dev/Vgroup/Lvolume file. PS: I started install from a situation where machine had only ordinary partitions, and one of them was deleted to make an LVM one from it.
256MB of memory is the mimimum required for installation. Even in those cases, you should run the text mode installer. Try rawhide or a Fedora 7 test release and see if the problem has been solved.
requested by Jams Antill
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