I fought with this for a day, and now am crying for help.... The goal is 5 partitions: boot, notebook suspend, / , /home. and swap. So I have to use LVM. Here are my commands: #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes #Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=hda #Disk partitioning information part pv.1 --size 1058 --noformat part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk=hda part swap --start=4603 --end=4864 part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=home --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25600 --grow ================================================= I get an error of lvm cann't create the volgroup. The partitions were created: hda1 4603 4864 2104515 82 linux swap hda2 * 1 13 104391 83 linux hda3 14 148 1084387+ 83 linux hda4 149 4602 35776755 8e linux LVM Note above that for the suspend partition, part requires I have a fstype and mount, so I am 'dummying them up and will edit the partition table later. Then run lphdisk. I always can just run disk druid to create the partitions if in the end I can't get this working. Well I have learned a lot! Oh, at first I did not have the -asprimary options, but the LVM partition was created as an extended partition and things looked a little strange. An extended partition with a LVM partition within it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060322/2dae9a24/attachment-0003.html>