Reinstalling B3 without LVM fails
Posted: 04 Mar 2011, 06:40
I just unpacked my brand new B3 and it started just fine!
However, I have no plans for RAID so I considered the LVM feature to be completely pointless as the partitions on /dev/sda are optimal enough as is.
Now, the only way of getting rid of the LVM is a complete reinstall. I prepared an USB stick and edited bubba.cfg by changing the last line to USELVM=0 - all operations done on a Ubuntu system to avoid Window's CRLF problems.
The I followed the manual and Bubba's LED went green fro almost 10 minutes (1 Tb disk) then purple. And it stayed purple for as long as I cared to wait. Rebooting failed, LED stayed purple.
Then I edited bubba.cfg back to USELVM=1 and this time B3 completed the reinstall and was back on-line with a blue LED!
I repeated the steps but the failure is consistent. I do not want to accept LVM because it has simply no function on this single disk system the way I intend to use it.
I would like to receive some feedback on this.
Below is the logfile for the failed install (without LVM):
The good install (with LVM):
However, I have no plans for RAID so I considered the LVM feature to be completely pointless as the partitions on /dev/sda are optimal enough as is.
Now, the only way of getting rid of the LVM is a complete reinstall. I prepared an USB stick and edited bubba.cfg by changing the last line to USELVM=0 - all operations done on a Ubuntu system to avoid Window's CRLF problems.
The I followed the manual and Bubba's LED went green fro almost 10 minutes (1 Tb disk) then purple. And it stayed purple for as long as I cared to wait. Rebooting failed, LED stayed purple.
Then I edited bubba.cfg back to USELVM=1 and this time B3 completed the reinstall and was back on-line with a blue LED!
I repeated the steps but the failure is consistent. I do not want to accept LVM because it has simply no function on this single disk system the way I intend to use it.
I would like to receive some feedback on this.
Below is the logfile for the failed install (without LVM):
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Check if we have an old lvm disk
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/bubba/storage
VG Name bubba
LV UUID uhYujL-W8Ct-vb0G-7yky-BLPP-Ztbo-yOphko
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status NOT available
LV Size 920.51 GB
Current LE 235651
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
Check if we an old raid disk
Reading external config
Fixing umask
Check for preinst script
No preinst script available
Setting date/time
Connecting to www.excito.com (194.236.32.217:80)
- 0% | | 0 --:--:-- ETA
- 100% |*******************************| 12 --:--:-- ETA
Fri Mar 4 10:54:00 MST 2011
Possibly reduce lvm if degraded
Volume group "bubba" is already consistent
Removing existing lvm
Logical volume "storage" successfully removed
Volume group "bubba" successfully removed
Labels on physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully wiped
LVM removed
No raid devices detected
Partition disk
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
Not creating volume
Format system disk
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Formatting native data partition
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Create swapspace
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1072689152 bytes
Install root filesystem
Creating missing devicenodes
Check for postinst script
No postinst script available
Umount home install partition
Umount system install partition
umount: can't umount /mnt/disk: Device or resource busy
Umount usb storage
umount: can't umount /mnt/usb: Device or resource busy
Install done
Reboot into new system
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Check if we have an old lvm disk
Volume group "bubba" not found
Skipping volume group bubba
Check if we an old raid disk
Reading external config
Fixing umask
Check for preinst script
No preinst script available
Setting date/time
Connecting to www.excito.com (194.236.32.217:80)
- 0% | | 0 --:--:-- ETA
- 100% |*******************************| 12 --:--:-- ETA
Fri Mar 4 11:17:00 MST 2011
No LVM attached
No raid devices detected
Partition disk
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
Create volume
Physical volume "/dev/sda2" successfully created
Volume group "bubba" successfully created
Logical volume "storage" created
Format system disk
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Formatting lvm data partition
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
Create swapspace
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1072689152 bytes
Install root filesystem
Creating missing devicenodes
Check for postinst script
No postinst script available
Umount home install partition
Umount system install partition
umount: can't umount /mnt/disk: Device or resource busy
Umount usb storage
umount: can't umount /mnt/usb: Device or resource busy
Install done
Reboot into new system