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Authored by: PJ on Sunday, March 03 2013 @ 01:36 AM EST |
OK. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jesse on Sunday, March 03 2013 @ 07:45 AM EST |
It is a VOLUME manager. It creates virtual disks, supports software raid,
stitching physical partitions together to create a software implemented disk
that can the be partitioned.
The problem happened to a lot of people upgrading from F15/16 as there has been
a change in how the boot system recognizes partitions - and it can be easily
confused.
I managed to avoid the problem by having enough disk space to allocate
sufficiently large partitions to not need to use LVM.
Unfortunately, the easiest "fix" is to make a full backup, and then do
a clean install.
Everything else seems to revolve around rebuilding the initrd (initialization
system for Fedora) so that it will recognize the LVM.
UNFORTUNATELY, it is not the custom of Fedora to rebuild the install/upgrade
CDs/DVDs originally released. That means that these disks always have the
problem.
One possible way to upgrade uses "preupgrade" to go from F15 to F17.
Then you have to use the "fedup" procedure (the replacement for
"preupgrade" to go from F17 to F18.
Unfortunately, this is not guaranteed to work.
My suggestion (I'm staying on F16 due to the problems both F17 and F18 have -
I'm hoping they are fixed in F19) is to wait a while. The F19 is supposed to be
released in a month or two, and hopefully the fix will be in that.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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