From what I can tell this all stems back to the SATA drive and boot loader install problem. This has caused a lot of data loss and reconstruction of the computer. Everything but the LVM was backed up. I am hoping that I can recover
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230876 Summary: Installation of 10.2 would not get past the boot loader install Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bdorner@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com The installation went fine until it came to the boot loader. Initially I tried to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2, but that failed when it came to loading the boot loader. The error was, I believe, 3003. Something to do with not being able to find the device or location of the boot sector. In this process of upgrading it had corrupted the boot sector and my computer was no longer bootable, nor was I able to repair the damage. The original file system was reiserFS with a large LVM attached. I kept several partions on the hard drives so that I could format the '/', boot, and usr partitions as needed. Sense I was unable to load anything from the hard drives I tried a new install on the root, boot, and usr partitions, leaving the home and LVM untouched. The new install went fine until I got to the boot loader install. It died again in the same spot and with the same error. This is a computer that has worked fine with the last 3 versions of SUSE. The last thing I did to the computer, several months ago, was to install a SATA hard drive. So I removed it from the system and tried to install 10.2 again. This time the install worked, except I had lost all data on all drives. I only formated the partions listed above. The Home partition was on the SATA drive that I removed, but the LVM was left untouched. So I plugged in the SATA drive and restarted the computer. There was a conflict with the partitions, 2 home partitions. The only solution was to format the old home directory, it wouldn't let me do anything else until I did that. So now everything appeared to work except the LVM. The only option that it would give me was to format the LVM's. I didn't want to do this but that appeared to be the only option. When I tried to format the LVM it says they are in use and that I would need to remove the mapping. When I tried to remove the mapping it says I can't because there is a logical association, I believe that is what it says, connected to it. I then get stuck in the LVM circle from ... So now I have 700 GIG's of LVM that I can't get to or use. the LVM and not lose the data, but the install did something to the drive mappings and so far I can't mount any of the drives associated with the LVM. I also can't reconstruct, remove, or do anything else with it. The computer is: AMD 64 3 ghz 1 gig ram MSI neo motherboard Approximately 900 MB of hard drive space ( 700 MB on IDE system, 200 MB SATA) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.