On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:11 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 53x73f2288el11aefa215d45923 at mail.gmail.com> > X-Rcpt-To: <centos at centos.org> > > 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 at 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