on 2/14/2008 3:21 AM Andrew Henry spake the following: > Im installing CentOS5.1 on an Acer Aspire 5021 laptop with AMD Turion64 > and ATI X700 128MB gfx card. > > I want to partition my 80MB ATA disk as LVM, so I: > > Choose custom partition. > delete all existing partitions. > add one LVM vg partition taking up entire disk. I do not change any > default options. > I then click the LVM button to add my logical volumes as follows: > > 5GB / > 8GB /home > 5GB /tmp > 4GB /var > 1GB swap > > all are ext3 partitions. > > I exit the LVM dialogue and click Next to continue with the > partitioning, and... it all crashes. I get a debug error box with lots > of unintelligible errors that I am completely unfamiliar with. I click > OK on the error dialogue and the installation freezes and I can only > power off with the button. I will probably look for this on bug tracker > and log a bug report if I don't find a similar case, but I wanted to > mail the list first (because it's easier) and ask if anyone knows of the > issue and how to get around it? > > thanks, > andrew I think you still need a small /boot partition unless grub will finally boot from LVM. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/056e5cd3/attachment-0004.sig>