651k51947373y3956817f807f49d at mail.gmail.com> X-Rcpt-To: <centos at centos.org> wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: > [root at 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. And the output of pvdisplay. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com