Grub doesn't install

[Mike McCarty]

Ian wrote:
> Well, you wouldn't adam and eve it. After writing that last email I got 
> to thinking about LVM and how I had no idea what it was and didn't 
> specify it anywhere. It was also the only thing that survived the many 
> reformats of the partitions. So I deleted it all and repartitioned with 
> "normal" partitions. And Voila! FC4 installed with absolutely no 
> problem, installed grub, everything. It all works! Hallelujah!
> Thanks so much for all your help and advice, much appreciated.
> Ian

I guess that the bottom line here is: Don't use LVM.

When I recently installed FC4 on a machine, it automatically created
LVM. That should not (IMO) be the default.

Mike
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