Installing the Live CD, 2008-r1 on amd64 with LVM. Here's the partition layout: livecd ~ # fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x35433484 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2 3892 31254457+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 3893 4014 979965 83 Linux /dev/sda3 4015 4622 4883760 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 4623 19457 119162137+ 8e Linux LVM Here's the LVM config: livecd ~ # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg1/lv1 VG Name vg1 LV UUID 8UaCM3-BMZc-qPcM-6K95-NnZJ-KX6p-edW1nz LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 32.00 GB Current LE 8192 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg1/lv2 VG Name vg1 LV UUID xdFaFs-Jt0g-QwGl-iIJM-nSGs-bf8A-IvHCkH LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 44.00 GB Current LE 11264 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/vg1/lv3 VG Name vg1 LV UUID b1H7S5-EdKh-z8eh-Oe80-kb77-VLgW-wkYp2C LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 37.64 GB Current LE 9636 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 Here's what was left in /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab: /dev/BOOT /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/ROOT / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 And here's the install config I wanted: /dev/sda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/vg1/lv2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 I manually entered the above config in the partitioner stage and it did mount everything correctly before unpacking the install. The end result is the install failed. Here's the install log: livecd ~ # cat /var/log/install.log.failed GLI: October 21 2008 08:29:45 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.6.6 GLI: October 21 2008 08:32:24 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.6.6 GLI: October 21 2008 08:34:33 - Mounted mountpoint: / GLI: October 21 2008 08:34:33 - Created mountpoint /boot GLI: October 21 2008 08:34:33 - Mounted mountpoint: /boot GLI: October 21 2008 08:43:10 - Stage3 was generated successfully GLI: October 21 2008 08:43:11 - Chroot environment ready. GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:04 - Portage tree install was custom. GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:06 - Make.conf configured GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:38 - Root Password set on the new system. GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:52 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:52 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/clock GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:52 - Timezone set. GLI: October 21 2008 08:44:52 - Starting emerge_kernel, package is livecd-kernel GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/hostname GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/domainname GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - ERROR! Failure adding domainname to runlevel default because it was not found! GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - ERROR! Could not add domainname to runlevel default. returned a bad status code. GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/hosts GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - Added net.eth0 to runlevel default GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:44 - Edited Config file /mnt/gentoo/etc/conf.d/net GLI: October 21 2008 08:46:51 - dhcpcd emerged. GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:10 - Added syslog-ng to runlevel default GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:10 - Logging daemon installed: syslog-ng GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:27 - Added vixie-cron to runlevel default GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:27 - Cron daemon installed and configured: vixie-cron GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:33 - Emerged the selected bootloader. GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - Exception received during 'Configuring and installing bootloader': BootloaderError :FATAL: _map_device_to_grub_device: ERROR, could not map/dev/vg1/lv to anything in the device map GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run func() GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 46, in install_bootloader self._configure_grub() GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 56, in _configure_grub self._gather_grub_drive_info() GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 163, in _gather_grub_drive_info self.grub_root_drive = self._map_device_to_grub_device(self.root_device) GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - File "/opt/installer/templates/x86ArchitectureTemplate.py", line 295, in _map_device_to_grub_device raise GLIException("BootloaderError", 'fatal', '_map_device_to_grub_device', "ERROR, could not map"+device+" to anything in the device map") GLI: October 21 2008 08:47:35 - GLIException: BootloaderError :FATAL: _map_device_to_grub_device: ERROR, could not map/dev/vg1/lv to anything in the device map Here's the device map (I think, there was no device.map) livecd ~ # cat /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/glidevice.map (hd0) /dev/sda This exact same config worked fine with ubuntu hardy and intrepid installs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot install cd 2. Configure partitions as above 3. Wait for it to fail. Actual Results: Install fails Expected Results: Install succeeds No sure, don't think that lvm should have even come into it as the boot partition was ext2 in a phys partition.
Forgot to add kernel options. Booted with "gentoo dolvm"
The installer does not support LVM configurations. However, I'll let the installer team decide what to do with this bug.
The installer is deprecated.
