CentOS

I do wish they hadn't decided to name the version after YYMM as 2009 sounds like it's 12 years old :( Please show us the output from lspci -nn | grep -i net so we can see the exact model of network card that you have in the machine. Also, check in /var/log/messages for things that may relate to the ...

All looks good to me. You can't merge them since /dev/sda5 is sitting between the two partitions. The best you can do is to use a 2nd partition as a 2nd PV and use that as part of the same VG. In an ideal world you'd move everything around to consolidate the space into one lump but sometimes it's ju...

What is the output from file -s /dev/sda4 ? It may be as simple as using [/tt]pvcreate /dev/sda4[/tt] to turn that partition into an LVM PV and then using the vgextend command to add that new PV to the existing Volume Group and, once that's done, use lvresize -r on the filesystem you want to resize....

Well if you aim to remove the cs-home LV then you definitely need to remove it from /etc/fstab since the system will enter emergency mode at the next boot if the entry is still there and the LV is not.

Remove it from /etc/fstab and then run systemctl daemon-reload and then re-attempt the same steps.

BLSCFG has been default since 8.0 dropped.

Well that is an ancient video card so solutions from 2014/15 might still be applicable. Switching to a different desktop won't make any difference, that's the video driver used by all of them that will not load. Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf? If so, try renaming it to something different, not a ...

Yes, that. You have to run the install under the running kernel for the running kernel. So boot the new kernel, switch consoles using Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as root, run the .run file, reboot into the same kernel that you were just using.

That does not look like the partitioning done by default. Is this a VMWare VM by any chance?

Well here's a similar error though on Ubuntu so you'd need to check the solution is applicable:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1263125 ... -not-found