OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Can't install an additional Hard Drive -- LVM.EXE problem
R.M. Klippstein:
I'm trying to add a third hard drive to existing setup, this third drive is a WD500AKS. I can't install eCS-bII on it because of the problem with LVM not being able to be initiated because partitions on this new drive cannot be tagged as startable. I've tried everything I know of to get around this problem, but – no luck. The latest thing I tried was using DFSee and creating a Primary partition as FAT32 and was able to tag is as startable, but then trying to install eCS to it resulted in the usual Failed to initialize Logical Volume Magament – Please close LVM.EXE – etc!
Hopefully someone knows how to cure this problem, Thanks for any ideas.
Ohh, by the way, I also tried removing the other H.D drives and tried to install to just the WD500AKS
and that didn't work either.
klipp
ivan:
What motherboard and what are the other two drives?
You may be having a problem if the first two drives are ide and this is sata which may require you to check the bios and set the sata to legacy rather than ahci.
Doug Bissett:
It is likely that the drive geometry is invalid for OS/2. Use DFSEE to wipe the front end of the drive (make sure you get the right one), then reboot, and try LVM again. Once you get a valid geometry, and partition the drive using LVM, it should work.
mopar_guy:
I thought that a startable partition has to be on one of the first two physical disks. If you initially had this set up as disk 3, the LVM has probably used a different disk geometry.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: David Koepl on October 23, 2015, 04:36:36 pm ---I thought that a startable partition has to be on one of the first two physical disks. If you initially had this set up as disk 3, the LVM has probably used a different disk geometry.
--- End quote ---
I don't think the geometry changes, just because the disk is not one of the first two physical units (but I could be wrong). What likely happened is that the disk was shipped set by/for windows, which uses an incompatible geometry. If you don't wipe it, and let LVM initialize it from scratch, the geometry is not changed, and remains incompatible. Beside that, he said that he tried it as the only disk, which eliminates the "first two drives" possibility.
You must also remember that Air Boot doesn't use the concept of "startable". It is a program that loads from the MBR, and it handles up to 24 (if I remember correctly) partitions, no matter what physical disk they are on. The eCS installer knows about that. The old Boot Manager had it's own partition, and that needed to be startable, and on one of the first two physical disks.
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