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Date:	Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:38:00 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: All Electronic Computer

In <45D7FB17.8050706@usa.net>, on 02/17/07
at 11:07 PM, Sheridan George said:

Hi,

>I put in the 1 gig FC and it is worse or I'm not remembering the things
>we did.

:-)

>On the Storage page of Boot Options I typed in, in this order: /A:2 /U:0
>/!BM /!RMV followed by Alt-F2 to SAVE and continue the boot.

This is what we we needed to do to get the other card to be reliable.

>When I enter LVM

LVM or MiniLVM? They are different an react differently at times.

>to add boot manager and create the eCS partition, the
>diagnostic "Disk 0 reports a corrupt partition table" pops up. Clicking
>OK shows D1 with 991MB (reasonable) and two existing partitions:
>1 MB Unformatted Primary Startable
>512 MB Unformatted Logical Startable
>476 MB free space

This seems reasonable.

>The problem is when the two partitions are deleted I get the same "Disk 0
>reports a corrupt partition table" nastygram after each deletion. After
>the two deletions it shows 991MB free space. BUT I can't install Boot
>Manager or create a partition. When I try, I get a "Operation not
>allowed" nastygram.

There's something on the card that IBMs LVM code does not like. Use dfsee
to wipe the card and then you should be able to create the volumes.

>Have I ever made it clear I hate computers.

They are simply electronic hammers.

Steven

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