[ale] Major Hdwe upgrade foils LVM

[hscast at charter.net]

---- Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Sounds like a "fun" challenge :-)
> 
> First off, grub is grousing because it can't find the original / partition.
> The LVM isn't loading because of the miss-ordering of the drives. It
> _should_ be using labels on the drives themselves but it seems like
> something is wrong. Which Fedora version is loaded on the drives?
Fedora 9 (32 bit)
> 
> BIOS ordering is ignored on the /boot is found. What does matter is pci
> device numbering.  So try plugging in the 500G into the SATA port the first
> 37G is plugged into the 37G into the 500G port.  I suspect the SATA ports
> are using the primary/secondary scheme and that is fouling up the PCI device
> numbering.
> 
I was thinking of doing that but wound up just disconnecting the 2 37GBs and of course the 500GB came up as sdd. I'll go back and give it a try again to see and get back to you.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:28 PM, <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > Took the plunge after my AMD Socket A processor burned up and also took
> > down the PSU. Bought new 520 W Corsair PSU along with a Gigabyte AM2+ MoBo
> > but only with an AMD 64 X2 processor and 4GB RAM (800MHz). I still have the
> > original HDDs (80GB, 250GB, 160GB, 500GB, 37GB, 37GB). The first 2 are PATA
> > and the other 4 are SATA which I had originally had connected to a PCI-SATA
> > 4 port card. The original; drive assignments or designators were as in order
> > by size; sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, sdf. The new Mobo has one PATA port
> > (master/Slave), and 6 SATA ports (0-5) of which the last 2 are inactive in
> > non-raid configs. The BIOS has them set as IDE the only non-raid config. The
> > BIOS also "sees" the drives in the correct order, however Fedora rescue boot
> > swaps the 500GB with the 1st 37GB making the order as 80GB = sda, 250GB =
> > sdb, 160GB = sdc, 1st 37GB = sdd, 500GB = sde, & 2nd 37GB sdf. I went to
> > Fedora rescue as the system originally wouldn't boot, GRUB comes up but it
> > seems to have a !
> >  problem with the LVM. Everything except of course is in a LVM partition
> > except of course /boot. Under system rescue, the volumes get mounted, but
> > with errors, but I'm not sure what the errors are, or at least I don't
> > understand it any way.
> >
> > I hope that this is somewhat clear and someone may be able to point me in
> > the right direction.
> >
> > TIA
> > Scott
> >
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