But since LVM2 metadata backups are enabled by default on FC2 I was able to restore it rather easily. I did the following: vgscan # gave me the UUID of the missing volume pvcreate -u 'very long UUID' /dev/hdc vgcfgrestore volume_group_name And that was that. Everything seems to be in perfect working order. How did this happen? Anaconda gave me no choice but to use /dev/hdc for the boot loader. So, I selected "don't install bootloader" and later manually installed the bootloader. But it ended up on hdc anyway. There seems to be confusion in this system's BIOS about which disks are which. My boot disk is normally hde (onboard Promise ATA133) but BIOS makes hdc (chipset ATA66) appear to be hd0 when I boot to CD. Once I had managed to boot the ATA133 disk (by manually typing in kernel and initrd parameters) I was able to run grub-install without any problems. Aside from that little trip the FC2->FC3 upgrade was absolutely flawless. I managed to keep nearly all of my third party software from FC2. Thanks to the release notes and reports on the list I had no trouble with the proprietary NVidia drivers and VMWare. I only had to 'cp -a' the relevant /dev entries into /etc/udev/devices directory. -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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