On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:11 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
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wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500:
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
Ok, that clarifies that the VG on /dev/hda3 is not in use at all and your CentOS is indeed installed on the LV on hda9. I still wonder how this mess was created. Did you have an earlier Linux installation on it and forgot to wipe that completely before you installed CentOS?
Kai: There was an earlier installation with Fedora Core or CentOS, and Windows 98 on it.. I think that I wiped the drive, before installing Win XP and CentOS 5, but that was almost 6 months ago and I am not 100% positive that I did in fact wipe the HD. For the earlier Linux installations, I did the partitioning manually, with Disk Druid.
I think the easiest way to get you back on track is to edit your fstab. There is a line about /boot in it that points to /dev/hda3. Change that to /dev/hda8. This is all. But before you do that, please check that there is indeed a grub.conf on it that contains the "old" information. You know the path I gave you was slightly wrong. Once you have confirmed that you can make the change to fstab (/etc/fstab). Be really careful when you do that as the wrong changes can make your system unbootable.
I will reread this entire thread and then keep my fingers crossed and do it. If I make her system unbootable, my wife will be unhappy......
Once the change is done the *next* kernel that gets installed will go to the correct boot partition and the correct grub.conf will be updated with the correct information to boot with the new kernel.
Thank you, for all of the time and expertise you have shared with me! Lanny