No volume groups found after a clean full install of FCR4

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:05 +0100, niall brady wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> this is my third install of FCR4 final in two days, (third machine, a dell latitude X300, more than a year old so not exactly brand new chipset etc...)
> 
> the install went fine, no issues at all using the same cd's as i used on the other boxes. However after booting into grub, i get a kernel panic
> 
> the errors appear like this
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel.
> Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting
> reading all physical volumes. this may take a while...
> No volume groups found.
> Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> Error: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 ! (pid 418)
> 
> and goes on ending with a kernel panic.
> 
> so, in disbelief i booted from cd1, and did linux rescue,
> 
> that goes fine until finally it tells me it cant find any linux partitions, so i cannot go in and look at grub or anything.
> 
> does anyone have any ideas about this ? is it a known bug ? the only reference i found to it (similar issue) was here https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg02208.html

> i'd appreciate your thoughts,


I just installed Fedora Core4 and get exactly the same results!!

I have a DELL Precision M70.  I noticed that no one has replied to your
post?   Can anyone please help us?


Thanks,
Ernest



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