[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:32 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Ran rescue mode from DVD but still no joy. Got the following error
> message:
> 
> 
> Booting Centos (2.6.18-238.e15)
> root (hd1.0)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
> kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.e15 ro root=/dev/volgroup00/logvol00 rhgb
> quiet
> Error 17: cannot mount selected partition
> Press any key to continue ...
> 

As Chuck said, type 0x8e is LVM partitioning.  Do it again, make a
partition of 100-200MB is size and mount it as /boot.

Do the rest with LVM.  No more problem.  

Thought I thought grub worked off of LVM, but my memory could be bad.

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Damon
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