[member=5916]trinidad[/member] , well I have probably missed that part when he mentioned something about Windows.
And it really does not matter unless he is running a really strange hardware.
But I don't think this is the case since the HD is under 200Gb.
It would be nice to get his Linux up and working. I hope the 'dd' will
do the job - but as this is really an exceptional case, I would not bet on it
Nothing to do with Windows, BIOS or MBR. This problem has to do with some process locking access to the
hard drive and since /dev/sda1 already seems to have an LVM signature - probably from some previous installation - I guess
one possibility is that LVM still sees that partition belonging to it. That is why I want to wipe out the contents
including the meta-data from that partition.
Let us see
And it really does not matter unless he is running a really strange hardware.
But I don't think this is the case since the HD is under 200Gb.
It would be nice to get his Linux up and working. I hope the 'dd' will
do the job - but as this is really an exceptional case, I would not bet on it
Nothing to do with Windows, BIOS or MBR. This problem has to do with some process locking access to the
hard drive and since /dev/sda1 already seems to have an LVM signature - probably from some previous installation - I guess
one possibility is that LVM still sees that partition belonging to it. That is why I want to wipe out the contents
including the meta-data from that partition.
Let us see