setup-storage : Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi Michael,

Quoting Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org>:

> I'm not entirely sure about this, but maybe this is a new error message that
> parted prints if the disk does not contain a disk label (i.e., is  
> brand-new or
> had been zeroed) or some disklabel that parted doesn't understand.  
> Could that be
> the case or should the disk in fact have a label readable by parted?

The disk has been created just with lvmcreate --size 20G -n xenvg diskname

> I'll have a look at the corresponding code in parted and probably  
> this is just
> an error that must be acknowledged and a new disklabel be written by force.

Thanks!




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