Install has problems with the drive(s) on this system Current version of the install DVD burned from the ISO - Checksum etc all good, onboard media test of the DVD passes.
Error during ‘Preparing Disks’
YaST2
Failure occurred during the following action:
Creating volume group system (931.16GB) from /dev/mapper/pdc_deghidijib_part2
System error code was: -4000
echo y| /sbin/pvcreate -ff -M2 ‘/dev/mapper/pdc_deghidijib_part2’:
Device /dev/mapper/pdc_deghidijib_part2 not found (or ignored by filtering).
Continue despite the error?
Continue Abort
Partition selection was as suggested with LVM ticked and Suggest Home ticked.
Is this a driver issue…? How the fsck do I tell?
It’s an onboard SATA RAID with 2 x 1TB configured as RAID 1.
RAID Option ROM Version 3.0.1540.39
(c) 2008 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU
64 bit
ASUSTeK Mainboard - M4A88T-M/USB3 NorthBridge Chipset
Bios Version 0702 Build date 12/01/10 (not sure whether that’s US arse backwards month/day/year or day/month/year like the rest of the world.)
Geoff