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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 correct |
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> my mistake on the boot scripts. Pointing me in the direction of a fine |
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> 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 assuming you |
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know your way around to find and detect those. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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