Installtion error

[faisal345]

I PARTITIONED MY HARD disk as
r00t 15gb
user 7gb
swap 2gb
home 50 gb
after installation the fedora9 loads and i set user account then it restarted and stop booting since i restarted it and used the default layout it worked fine......so what will be the problem so i cannot boot at first......NOW iam using it with the default layout

[b2bwild]

When you setup partitions
force your swap, /boot and / to be primary
Take swap 1.5x-2x of your ram ( format with swap filesystem )
/boot around 150-200mb ( mount point /boot )
/ 15gb ( mount point / )
/usr 7gb ( mount point /usr )
/home 50gb ( mount point /home )



Here is some documentation on partitioning

[devils casper]

There is no need to create Primary Partition(s) for Linux installation.
1GB SWAP is more than enough and there is no need to create separate /boot partition unless one is using LVMs or machine is going to be a critical production machine.
There partitions, SWAP, / and /home are enough imho.

after installation the fedora9 loads and i set user account then it restarted and stop booting since i restarted it

What was error message? We can't suggest you anything unless we check error message(s).
I am 100% sure that partition structure was not the problem.

[faisal345]

SORRY guys i was so frustated i dont check that error message.. i once more reinstalled fedora now my partition is like this
24gb physical volume with 2 logical volms ie root(15gb) and user(8gb)
then i created another physical volume and set home on it about 48 gb
then swap as usual 2gb and boot 300mb ..........
everything worked fine like butter now.........but even now i dont know why i created that physical volumes...........SO what is this physical volume do to my drive appart from the ususal install..............being a newbie i have a lot of dought ...................i hope u people understand.............even before 3 months i used my pc only for gaming and watching films............But something about linux stoped me and ever since iam trying to be with linux but just have the basic knowledge abot computers

[devils casper]

First of all, lets check partition structure of your Harddisk. Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

su -
fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.