[gentoo-user] OpenRC broke my LVM?

[Matt Harrison]

Hi folks,

I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for 
a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a 
dream until now.

The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite 
ebuild missing from the repository. Well I had other things to do so I 
thought I'd leave that for now (sqlite isn't critical).

Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working 
fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes. 
If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it 
being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1.

I've managed to find some info about the OpenRC and baselayout-2 change, 
however nothing seems to apply to my situation, and I certainly never 
meant to do an upgrade that would make such a serious change.

Is there some way I can recover my system without having to re-install? 
I've got a lot of data that I would cry if i lost, although I think the 
data is ok...I'm just really confused about this baselayout-2 change.

Because all my partitions (except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get 
to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try 
to re-emerge lvm etc.

Any tips would be greately appreciated.

Thanks

Matt Harrison
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