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From: Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:21:40
Message-Id: 480ED571.4060605@xs4all.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM? by Matt Harrison
1 Hi Matt
2
3 Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05:
4 > I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for
5 > a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a
6 > dream until now.
7 >
8 > The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite
9 > ebuild missing from the repository. Well I had other things to do so I
10 > thought I'd leave that for now (sqlite isn't critical).
11 >
12 > Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working
13 > fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes.
14 > If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it
15 > being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1.
16 >
17 > I've managed to find some info about the OpenRC and baselayout-2 change,
18 > however nothing seems to apply to my situation, and I certainly never
19 > meant to do an upgrade that would make such a serious change.
20 >
21 > Is there some way I can recover my system without having to re-install?
22 > I've got a lot of data that I would cry if i lost, although I think the
23 > data is ok...I'm just really confused about this baselayout-2 change.
24 >
25 > Because all my partitions (except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get
26 > to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try
27 > to re-emerge lvm etc.
28 >
29 > Any tips would be greately appreciated.
30
31 Add lvm to your boot run level for baselayout-2:
32
33 rc-update add lvm boot
34
35 Cheers, Dave
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