Bob Goodwin wrote: > I would have liked to do away with the LVM stuff when installing but > have yet to learn how to accomplish that. I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, or trying to do (and I do not set up as an expert anyway), but I don't think /boot can be on an LVM partition. I have boot on /dev/sdb2, and all the LVM partitions on /dev/sdb6 . -------------------------- /dev/sdb1 * 1 2433 19543041 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdb2 2434 2446 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 2451 3424 7823655 81 Minix / old Linux /dev/sdb4 3425 36472 265458060 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 3425 4033 4891761 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdb6 4034 36472 260566236 8e Linux LVM -------------------------- root@alfred tim]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/VolGroup00/slash / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/VolGroup00/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/VolGroup00/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/VolGroup00/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/VolGroup00/www /www ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/VolGroup00/swap swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=/common /common ext3 defaults 1 2 -------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
