Comment 17 for bug 105623

I'm about to install Ubuntu on a machine that already has several PVs and LVs, several of which I do not want to lose or wipe. If I booted the alternate installer, could I just jump to a new virtual console and run pvscan and lvscan from there? And then choose manual partitioning? Or would I run into the same error/timeout delay?

The workaround suggested scares me, because of the very real possibility of data loss. I'm gonna hold off installing until I get a better solution.