[linux-lvm] problem with vgcreate ...

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Wed Apr 4 08:06:16 UTC 2001


On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:55:49AM +0200, Artur Wiak wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have problem with LVM beta6.
> I have RedHat 7.0 with 2.4.2 kernel (compilation with
> util-linux 2.10o, modutlis 2.4.2 & e2fsprogs 1.19).
> After compilation all is OK.
> I'm installing LVM (first- .configure - OK,
> second- compilation with LVM as module - OK,
> third- make - OK, fourth- make install - OK).
> but when i started module and i want create lvm group
> (vgcreate lvmgrp /dev/sd?? /dev/sd??) I obtain:
> lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a
> vgcreate -- ERROR "Invalid argument" creating VGDA for volume group
> "lvmgrp" in kernel.
> I don't known what i do bad (maybe any patch)?
> (With beta4 end beta5 this error recurs too.)
> Help me please.

You'll need to patch your kernel too to get beta6, it sounds like
you have just upgraded the tools.

patrick




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