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Hi, Alan. |
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:11 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > My new(ish) amd64 system has two 1TB HDDs in a (software) RAID1, and |
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> > practically the entire system is under an LVM2. |
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> > I rather unwisely made this addition to the startup stuff: |
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> > ls -s /usr/bin/svscanboot /etc/init.d/ |
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> > rc-update add svscanboot default |
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> > , and now the box hangs during boot up. |
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> > On the same box, I also have a "trial" installation which boots and I |
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> > still have the installation CD from about a year ago. |
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> > Would somebody please help me get into my system sufficiently to |
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> > correct my mistake on the boot scripts. Pointing me in the direction |
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> > of a fine manual section would be regarded as help. |
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> Boot the trial installation which does boot. |
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> vgchange -ay |
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> find and mount your lvm volumes somewhere |
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> now you can access that dodgy symlink to delete it |
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> Maybe there's other steps (like loading kernel modules), but I'm |
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> assuming you know your way around to find and detect those. |
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It turns out I panicked needlessly, since my root partition is on |
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/dev/sdb1. I didn't manage to figure out how to get / onto the LVM2 way |
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back when. I'm glad I didn't delete the "trial" installation, which I'm |
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renaming to "rescue" :-). |
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Thanks for the tip. I've a feeling I'll be needing vgchange sometime or |
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other. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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