It seemed to work. After wiping out the lvm with gparted, the installation
went forward as expected.

There should be a log somewhere or terminal session that shows error
message from the installer.

Thanks!

Mark

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 4:31 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On 2022-07-20 14:56, Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > I have an older System 76 laptop running 18.04 in a lvm across 2
> > disks (1 TB and 2 TB).
> >
> > I downloaded 22.04 desktop iso, verified it, installed it on a USB
> > drive [...] When I try to install it, I get as far as the 5th screen,
> > Installation Type, where I select the 1 TB drive and hit continue.
> > Nothing happens after that. I had selected normal installation,
> > download updates, and erase disk. [...]
> >
> > Could this have anything to do with the lvm currently installed
> > across the two drives? Should I go into the "try" part of the USB
> > drive, open gparted, and reformat the two internal drives, then start
> > the installation again?
>
> This is what I'd try.  Some part of the installer is probably scanning
> for stuff, getting confused by seeing this LVM setup, and refusing to
> erase the partition table and/or LVM metadata.  If nothing else, you can
> then test your "restore all non-OS data from backups" procedure this
> way, which is always a useful thing to do.
>
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