[CentOS] install woes - SOLVED

[Chuck Campbell]

On 4/10/2015 3:32 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> try creating small /boot partition for kernel and then rest of disk for
> lvm..
>
>
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> Eero
>
> 2015-04-10 22:01 GMT+03:00 <m.roth at 5-cent.us>:
>
>> Chuck Campbell wrote:
>>> I'm really at a loss.
>>> I had 5.11 running on this machine, from this physical boot disk, until I
>>> stepped on /bin the other day.
>>>
>>> I've tried installing Centos 5.10 and 5.11 to this Seagate 1TB drive.
>> Both
>>> installs run perfectly, but when I try to reboot, grub says
>>> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee
>>>
>>> googling this indicates that the disk has a GUID partition table. This
>>> must have been done by the installer??? If so, why doesn't it get the
>> boot loader
>>> set up correctly?
>> <snip>
>> As it's only a 1TB drive, what does fdisk say? Or parted? You *could* try
>> rewriting the partition table and see if that helps.
>>
>>       mark, who friggin' nixspam is blocking from posting again to the list
>>
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The machine was seeing the disks in a different order when running the DVD
install, than when it tried to boot itself.

-chuck

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