Thanks Moredruid. That info is getting saved in my growing linux knowledgebase. I traced the problem to the e-sata cable. I find it odd that I could see the file structure just fine ( the LVM based on the external drive), even could get access to the files... it just took a darn long time to access ...

Seems I am getting Input/Output errors on My external Raid array - Hardware based. This is all in an LVM... Performance off of the Raid array is terrible... I can barely access any of the files. So now I just really need to get my data off of that system so I can troubleshooting further... the raid ...

It took over an hour to finish booting. This tells me its a hardware issue.

I am researching possible logs I can look at here. If anyone has suggestions I am open to them.

My internet research is on going, but I thought I would try here as well. I shut my hda off each night due to heat issues this summer - to many computers producing to much heat. I turned my HDA on and Fedora never completes the bootup process. Right now I am looking at the nice little blue F logo......

I noticed that Fedora automatically creates LVM by default. I tried to add my external esata Raid 5 device ( hardware raid) to this on install but it kept crashing on me...I will figure this out later. Perhaps I will need to add it after the install. Anyway Does LVM work with such a device? I believ...