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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:40:26 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupt Partition Table

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Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> LVM is not only inflexible, it is downright obstinate and malicious. It
> tells you that disk X reports a corrupt partition table, then it won't
> let you save any changes to other disks or to Boot Manager, even though
> Disk X with its "corrupt Partition Table" still works quite well with
> LVM and eCs in general.
>
> I get the LVM "corrupt Partition Table" when I format a disk with DFSee.
> Maybe i am doing something wrong. It seems that I must partition
> everything with LVM or with DFSee, but not mix them.

I have lost track of how many machines I have tried to install eCS on.
Version 1 was OK and it still installed on FAT16. Starting with 1.2,
the only "used" HDD that eCS has ever accepted is my laptop. Every
other HDD, on every desktop - and there have been many - if there was
anything on it, install LVM said "corrupt partition". And it didn't
what tool had been used on the drive before. Recent eCS has a bit of
DFSee added to it, but I still have problems.

I do however, have a scheme that gets it installed.

Plug in an extra HDD as the only HDD.
Boot the DFSee CD.
Clean the drive.
Boot the eCS CD.
Create a one Gig primary with your choice of drive letter.
Install eCS to that partition, and do the basic setup.
Copy that partition to a working HDD in the position of the drive letter
you selected.

As an aside, my work machines boot FreeDOS, W4, eCS and W2K. There is
no LVM - that choice is part of my multi OS compromise. Copying the
partition to another HDD might lose the LVM, and DFSee has a menu item
for removing it.

Ray

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