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   Alex Taylor to All   
   Re: advice on hardware purchase   
   11 Feb 11 01:30:01   
   
   .linux.misc:19341 comp.os.os2.ecomstation:841   
   From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:22:37 UTC, Dave Yeo  wrote:   
      
   > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   > >> I tried to install the latest Ubuntu, being very careful to do all my   
   > >> partitioning ahead of time. It still did something nasty to my   
   > >> partition tables.   
   > >   
   > > Do you know what?   
   >    
   > Seems to have screwed up the LVM info. The guilvm complains about    
   > incorrect partitioning information and shows blank space where I have    
   > partitions. Also tries to reassign drive letters that I'm using. Using    
   > DFsee can cause a trap E in lvm.   
   > Everything was fine when I created partitions to install Ubuntu into. I    
   > was careful to tell Ubuntu not to format yet every disk it touched ended    
   > up corrupted and all it took was an existing swap partition for Ubuntu    
   > to touch the drive.   
      
   This may be related: http://bugs.ecomstation.nl/view.php?id=2914   
      
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