From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" reading physical volumes Message-Id: <20020115151222.D11005@sistina.com> References: <1010527606.19493.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1010529428.19493.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1010529428.19493.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from mkennedy@opushealthcare.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:37:08PM -0600 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Jan 15 08:15:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:37:08PM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > > Never mind. A little more perseverance and I learned that it was my IDE > cdrw drive. I needed to add "append="ide-scsi"" to the relevant > /etc/lilo.conf stanza and then add ide-scsi to /etc/modules so that it > loads at boot. > > Shouldn't LVM check against such devices being present and then skip > over them though? We are adding config file support for inclusion and exclusion of arbitrary devices to LVM2 which will give the user much more control as any hard coded logic. > > Matt > > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 16:06, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having some trouble getting LVM to work on a Debian system. The > > actions I performed are bellow (--verbose --debug versions are > > attached). Bascically, I get "ERROR "pv_read(): PV identifier invalid" > > reading physical volumes" when I run vgcreate even though the PV I > > initialized succeeded. > > > > My user tools are IOP10. Kernel is 2.4.17. > > > > Thanks > > > > Matt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-