Problem Installing FC 6 Final on LVs over software raid

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:00:35PM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> I cannot get FC6 (or FC6T4, or Rawhide) to recognize one of the software 
>> raid partitions as a PV for the LVs.
> 
> Does this partition, or a phisical disk below it, has, by any
> chance, a spurious RAID signature?  This was not an issue in FC5 and
> below.  If this happens to be the case then use 'dmraid -r -E ...'
> to clean that up.  I bumped into that with "recycled" disks where I
> was not even aware that some time in the past they were used as part
> of RAID.  Somewhat nasty and it would be really nice to a clearer
> indication what is happening instead of leaving that as a "dark
> corner".
> 
>> It is listed as foreign in the anaconda partitioner.
> 
> It will be "busy" once you booted with no outward indication
> what makes that partition "busy" beyond that all 'open' calls fail.
> 
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176623#c8
> 
> Maybe this is something else, but just an idea ...
> 
>    Michal
> 

Hmmmm....interesting idea and very plausible.  Will following the steps 
in 176623 cause the current data to be lost?  Or is it still there and 
I just finish up by restoring the LVM structure from the LVM backup?

Thank you very much for the response.

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