[CentOS] Re: CentOS5 installation crashes

Scott Silva
2008-02-14T16:47:51Z

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.

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