can't select LVM partition during install

[fangorious]

I'm using a flight 4 i386 livecd, running the espresso installer. When it comes time to partitioning, I select the manual option as I already have the partitions configured. The gparted stuff detects my drives and LVM partitions correctly, but when I move on to the next screen to mount partitions, I can't select any of the LVM partitions. I have two drives: hde and hdg. The hde drive has an NTFS partition, some free space, and an LVM group. The LVM group has 3 volumes: my breezy root partition, a swap partition, and a formatted but unsed partition I want to use as my dapper root. The hdg drive has a single ext3 partition I share between Windows and Linux. I've also tried having the installer auto-partition /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 and it tries to create a primary ext3 for root and an logical/extended swap but fails.

Perhaps the biggest problem is that getting my partitions prepped kinda blew away the old grub (that free space on hde used to be hde2 and was /boot for breezy, even after copying it's contents to hde3 and editing menu.lst, it won't boot)(and I can't seem to restore it from the flight4 livecd), so I can't boot breezy or windows right now. So my wife is probably going to be upset until I get it fixed. Yay me.

The choices I have in the Mountpoint window are:


Partition 1 Disc IDE/ATA 5 (Primary) [hde1]
Partition 3 Disc IDE/ATA 5 (Primary) [hde3]
Partition 1 Disc IDE/ATA 7 (Primary) [hdg1]


Here's some shell output showing my drives and partitions. Both the ext3 LVM partitions are mountable with the livecd booted.


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hde

Disk /dev/hde: 46.1 GB, 46115758080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5606 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 2805 22531131 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde3 2819 5606 22394610 8e Linux LVM
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hdg

Disk /dev/hdg: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 2 14946 120045712+ 83 Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy%
LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-a- 10.31G
LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-a- 1.00G
LogVol02 VolGroup00 -wi-a- 10.00G
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID s5wSdX-4Br7-IjN8-9FS3-I19A-zhl1-2OBbeb
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 10.31 GB
Current LE 330
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:0

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID STE5KZ-Lc3I-0Kj0-2juz-kZ1j-YcAs-J9bsTz
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 1.00 GB
Current LE 32
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:1

--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
VG Name VolGroup00
LV UUID ewsEK9-zn61-xJyp-mx6n-AJJ1-ihqk-4n18Id
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size 10.00 GB
Current LE 320
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:2

[fangorious]

The install ISO had better luck. The install CD had a section to activate LVM, and then I could select it. It tried (and failed) to install lilo thought. Shouldn't it have asked me? I managed to get the old grub working by recreating the /dev/hde2 partition and copying the boot files from the breezy install onto it. Then I was able to make an entry for my new dapper install, and install grub there. Unfortunately, I didn't get the colorscheme and splash image I got from the flight3 install on my laptop. Any tips on how to get that (other than manually editing menu.lst and copying the splash image)?