Hi,
this is about proxmox 3.x.
I tried to install following <http://www.howtoforge.com/proxmox-2-with-software-raid-p2> and it failed. When I tried to install again, it failed again. It seems proxmox installation does not really wipe anything nor zero superblocks or the like but just overwrite. So as a result dirty HDDs with previous data continued to have data where there shouldn't be any, like the volume group information.
As a last desperate measure I deleted all partitions from all drives using fdisk, but after rebooting from the CD it didn't manage to even setup a partition table.
So it seems, I really cannot use Proxmox without first using windows only to delete a hard drive clean. Is there no recovery floppy or disk or any conventional path considered to be taken to just erase a harddrive properly?
Thanks
this is about proxmox 3.x.
I tried to install following <http://www.howtoforge.com/proxmox-2-with-software-raid-p2> and it failed. When I tried to install again, it failed again. It seems proxmox installation does not really wipe anything nor zero superblocks or the like but just overwrite. So as a result dirty HDDs with previous data continued to have data where there shouldn't be any, like the volume group information.
As a last desperate measure I deleted all partitions from all drives using fdisk, but after rebooting from the CD it didn't manage to even setup a partition table.
So it seems, I really cannot use Proxmox without first using windows only to delete a hard drive clean. Is there no recovery floppy or disk or any conventional path considered to be taken to just erase a harddrive properly?
Thanks