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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:18:30 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Questions (probably already asked and answered

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Martin wrote:

> >(1) How do you fix an LVM partitioned hardddrive that LVM reports as
> >having incorrect partitioning data on it? I can access the volumes, but
> >cannot remove Boot Manager and probably cannot change any of its
> >partioning.

I can't agree with Steven that Google is necessarily your friend: often it is, but
not so rarely it ain't. What used to be the Deja Power Search template (for the
newsgroups) is quite good, though I guess that's part of Google now. In this
case, there happens to be a considerable amount of material on the subject.
In fact, it was way more than I cared to read online, so I downloaded a lot of
it, probably to print out.

In what I did read, there seemed to be a consensus that the LVM partition info
was easily damaged -- by a lot of things -- in particular running non-LVM-aware
utilities like Partition Magic. The remedy, recoounted over and over, was to run
LVM again, and let it put its stamp on all the partitions again. That may be an
oversimplification, but that was the gist of it.

If things are *still* screwed up, there are probably things a knowledgeable person
could do with DFSEE. (It would have been a really good idea to have DFSEE
take "snapshots" of all your partition info, *before* you began any risky operations.)
Tony Butka wrote a basic tutorial / article on DFSEE, which you can find on the
SCOUG website. I've been meaning to study it ever since it was published, and
hope I don't put that off until the wolf is at the door, so to speak.

> WinMe is a pain in the arse: it insists
> on formatting the entire 120 GB drive as C: unless I partition it first.

Win-ME is widely regarded as the WORST version of Win since Win95.

> I made a FAT32 partition with FDISK. I will just install WinMe in a
> FAT16 2GB partition and see if it works.

FDISK is also an LVM partition-data killer.

The general rule of thumb, which is echoed in the eCS guide, is that the
Win boot partitions should go in first. Among those, any earlier versions
should precede the later ones. Once those are squared away, the eCS boot
partition(s) should go on last. (Or Warp, if you're prepared to deal with
much more difficult install issues and hardware / driver stuff, on current
systems.)

That is more or less the point I'm stuck at, on this sff box. The W2Ks seemed
to be working fine . . . except that I couldn't get the boot loader to work in
the _alternate_ C:, where I tried out DR-DOS 7.03 for it's superior features,
and decided I preferred it to the PC-DOS 2000 I've had on my desktop system
for several years. Hopefully, eCS goes on real soon now, if I can just figure
out a couple of basic hardware things that have been annoying mysteries.

Jordan

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