said:
Hi Harry,
>Probably not exactly. But, pretty close. The essence of the message was
>that I should not "create a volume" or "assign a volume letter" and that
>this had to be done in LVM.
OK, after discussing this with Jan, we have some guesses as to what you
did to cause this message. You intended to have dfsee to create a JFS
volume. If you did this with the intent of creating a bootable volume,
you made a relatively common user error. If, on the other hand, you did
this with the intent of creating a data volume, you neglected to tell this
to anyone here.
My slowness in figuring this out was two-fold. First you did not explain
exactly what you asked dfsee to do in the terms that dfsee uses. It
matters in this case. Second, I know that eCS/OS2 does not support what
you intended to ask it to do, so I would not normally ask dfsee to do
this. I would tell dfsee to create a Inst-Fsys (type 7) partition and
assign a LVM volume letter. This generates no warnings because dfsee has
known how to do this for a long time. This results in a type 7
compatibility volume that can boot HPFS or JFS depending on what you
install.
You can't boot from a JFS volume, so it is an error to create a JFS volume
with the intent of installing eCS to this volume. Once you get into the
eCS installer you would have to change the volume to a compatibility
volume before the installer will accept it as an install target.
What is true is the dfsee does not yet fully support assigning LVM volume
letters to JFS partitions which would make it a JFS volume. This is why
you get a warning message. You can ignore the warning and assign a volume
letter anyway, but it will not work correctly in all cases. You can also
follow the directions a continue forward and create the partition. Of
course, as I said before, you will never be able to boot from it.
>I believe that I had
>to abort DFSee and start over again to see the message. I could not
>simply go backwards! Anyway, I aborted, started over and got the same
>message again.
I can replicate this this here now. The interface is a bit confusing if
you don't understand the terminology or you make incorrect assumptions.
The interface should be better in the next dfsee version.
>At the time, I surmised that it was caused by my previous many attempts
>to delete and the then remake the partition, using LVM.
Unlikely. More likely, it was related to your desire to create a JFS
volume with the intent of installing eCS to it. eCS/OS2 does not support
this. It did not occur to me that you might be trying to do this until
Jan reminded me that the warning occurs only for JFS partitions.
Steven
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