On 5/25/05, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On my first go with LVM, I created the hda1 - /boot - 250 MB, the rest > was all LVM. I am thinking that my mistake may have been to put swap in > LVM, perhaps I should have kept swap and /boot both out of LVM. Hmm. I always put swap inside LVM too with no problems. Are your problems perhaps really more fundamental, such as LBA mode on the hard disk? When you built the "bad" system, did you try booting into single-user mode? The Disk Druid partitioning tool, while not perfect, still should work fine and result in a very bootable system. Also, when you "wipe" the drives to do a fresh install, did you also delete and then recreate the LVM partition? Because the current LVM is actually version 2, and the layout is different than the old LVM1 version. The installer usually upgrades any LVM1 partitions to LVM2 without problem...but just in case you did have an old LVM1 and it couldn't upgrade to LVM2; deleting all the partitions and then recreating new ones should make sure that's not an issue. If nothing else you can always wipe the drive the forceful way; boot into Linux (or the recovery disk) and do something like, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 **Warning, that will delete EVERYTHING on the hard drive! -- Deron Meranda
