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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:14:23 -0800
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupt Partition Table

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Thanks, Ray, for the suggestion. I may have to get the "eComputer" working that way but I want to
exhaust all eComputer only ways first. I know I have yet to try an install using "own values" so
the drive can be set using the /A:2 /U:0 /!BM /!RMV switches. This is what Steven found needed to be
done. I simply wanted to see what happened if a "dumb-hands" install was tried. At least I got a lot
further after setting things up with DFSee than anytime before. I got an install up to where the
computer automatically rebooted. The reboot failed. Early next year I will continue with what I
know I should do and report on that effort.

Sheridan

Ray Davison wrote:
> 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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