On 5/12/08, Kai Schaetzl <maillists AT conactive DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > [root@compaq1300 ~]# df
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> > 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% /
> > /dev/hda3 102486 22174 75020 23% /boot
>
> I don't understand how this can go together with this partition table:
> /dev/hda3 5348 10586 39606840 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/hda8 3734 3747 105808+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 3748 5347 12095968+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> Your /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 might be on /dev/hda9 and the correct
> boot partition for it is probably /dev/hda8.
> Then you have /dev/hda3 which is another LVM partition, but which is not
> used by your installation at all (at least the small size of VolGroup00-
> LogVol00 suggests this). And at the same time your installation has
> mounted /dev/hda3 as a normal partition (although it is LVM) and uses it
> to install the kernel updates and thinks it's the boot partition. However,
> the /dev/hda3 that your system uses is about 100 MB while the /dev/hda3 of
> the partition table is roughly half the size of your whole disk and LVM
> managed. This all doesn't fit together.
> Ross thinks you have more than one distribution on that disk. That could
> indeed be an explanation. Did you do a repair or so? The twofold
> installation of Windows somehow hosed the booting and you tried to repair
> the system and somehow the boot partitions got mixed up or so?
> Do an "lvdisplay" and post some lines from it here, the LV Name and LV
> Size lines should be sufficient.
[root@compaq1300 ~]# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
LV Size 10.53 GB
> And the output of pvdisplay.
[root@compaq1300 ~]# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hda9
VG Name VolGroup00
PV Size 11.54 GB / not usable 4.47 MB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size (KByte) 32768
Total PE 369
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 369
PV UUID VT1z1b-Mjeu-Yaes-9jjv-FLz6-DYYl-6XbLOu
Thank you Kai! Lanny
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