On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:37 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 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. Kai: As I just replied to Ross, no, the only Linux distro on our boxes is CentOS 5. > 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? No repair was attempted. > 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. I will run those commands and give you the output, after she stops using the box. ASAP. TIA, Lanny