[SOLVED] Fedora9 LVM Group

[vijithak]

Hi All,

This is my first post here. I'm having some problems (actually may not a problem at all but ..) with my LVMGroup in fedora 9. My requirement is to remove all the partitions and those logical volumes in the hard disk and have a completely empty hard disk. Because I need to install vista (proprietary version) first then install linux distro. I had this settings before and there the vista was already there. The issue is that vista is not recognizing the hard disk (I think due to its proprietary nature...). I first install fedora 9 and then analyze the partition structure (by going to the installation step again). It displays two sets, one LVM Groups and the other Hard Drives.

Under the LVM Groups:
VolGroup00
-->LogVol01 swap
-->LogVol00 ext3
And in Hard Drives:
/dev/sda
-->/dev/sda1 /boot
-->/dev/sda2 VolGroup00

I tried removing the partition table (with grub) too by "dd if=/dev/zero of........" even then, I think that Logical volume was not removed so vista didn't recognized the HD. Can anyone shed some on light on this? (BTW I installed this quite a few times in different ways but no luck )

Thanks,
Vijitha

[vishesh]

Just insert Fedora 9 dvd , boot from it. In disk partition screen remove all the partition, write the changes and reboot your system from that point. After that install vista

thnks

[vijithak]

Hi Vishesh,

No that's not possible, It won't allow to proceed from there without necessary partitions for the installation as the changes are commited in the next step. I'm not sure it's possible in the rescue mode...?

Is it possible to commit the changes somehow without proceeding to the installation?
PS:I have a factory image of Vista which isn't work like a normal installation DVD.

[vishesh]

Hi Vishesh,


Is it possible to commit the changes somehow without proceeding to the installation?

Yes its possible, i done this on linux as well as windows 2003.

Alernate way is to try from live cd. use Fedora 9 live cd , and you can partition accordingly.


Thnks

[vijithak]

Hi All,

I was able to fix this, I think it was due to some issues with the factory image I used to install Vista.

It displays two sets, one LVM Groups and the other Hard Drives.
Under the LVM Groups:
VolGroup00
-->LogVol01 swap
-->LogVol00 ext3
And in Hard Drives:
/dev/sda
-->/dev/sda1 /boot
-->/dev/sda2 VolGroup00

And this was due to the partitioning option selected by default, no worries