[linux-lvm] Newbie: Yet another "Incorrect metadata area header checksum"

[Simon Waters]

On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:21:30 Simon Waters wrote:
> Is this due to old metadata on the disk, or is there something going wrong
> in the installation process.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

>From the Debian install CD, and then a reboot (otherwise the Debian installer 
remembers the old LVM information it read from disk when it booted, and 
complains things aren't like the use to be.