From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iBHHi0r31240 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:44:00 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBHHhxCn027397 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:43:59 -0500 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CfM90-0007WA-00 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:43:58 +0100 Received: from tesuji.nac.uci.edu ([128.200.34.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:43:58 +0100 Received: from strombrg by tesuji.nac.uci.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:43:58 +0100 From: Dan Stromberg Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:35:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1102967092.3784.192.camel@tesuji.nac.uci.edu> <1102982038.3784.224.camel@tesuji.nac.uci.edu> <20041214032114.GB6748@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Re: Fedora Core 3 system with lvm2 won't boot Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Robin, I owe you. I'd like to repay you either by coding a small to medium-sized app for you in C, bash or python, or by buying you a tea/coffee/beer/wine of your choice (one of moderate price :). What would you prefer? This is what worked for me: On FC3's recovery cdrom... 1) Do startup network interfaces 2) Don't try to automatically mount the filesystems - not even readonly 3) lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -P -a y 4) fdisk -l, and guess which partition is which based on size: the small one was /boot, and the large one was / 5) mkdir /mnt/boot 6) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot 7) Look up the device node for the root filesystem in /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf 8) A first tentative step, to see if things are working: fsck -n /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 9) Dive in: fsck -f -y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 10) Wait a while... Be patient. Don't interrupt it 11) Reboot