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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yep ... dual CPUs ... i just quit trying after it
stalled on me.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could make Knoppix work with LVM (<A
href="http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/LVM2">www.knoppix.net/wiki/LVM2</A>) ... but
it would not mount it once everything was installed ... installed fine ..
commands worked, but no luck on getting it to mount.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I finally figured out how to get to lvm stuff on
the FC3 recovery CD ... works differently than I thought. I just had to
type lvm at the command prompt (duhhh) ... the one gets an lvm prompt.
Within that I could then work on using vgs or vgscan. I was able to
use</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>vgreduce --removemissing</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as the second hard drive has had a massive failure
(no backups) ... it now seems to appear that the VolGroup00 is just this one
hda2 ... as it does not indicate it is missing any other drives. this is
the one that I want to mount and see if anything is on it. (stuff is on it, but
i want to see what I can recover)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Issue now ... how do i mount the drive as
LVM? could not get it to work with FC3 Rescue CD ... I kept getting error
messages.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any way to change it from LVM back to ext3?
Guess I will google on that a bit.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Randy</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=sfertch@gmail.com href="mailto:sfertch@gmail.com">Shawn Fertch</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=tclug-list@mn-linux.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 20, 2005 12:47
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [tclug-list] LVM
recovery</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>On 11/20/05, <B
class=gmail_sendername>Randy Clarksean</B> <<A
href="mailto:rclark@lakesplus.com">rclark@lakesplus.com</A>> wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have tried that one already ... no go ...
it stalls when it is booting up the first time ... so I never even get
the chance to try it out.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Does this system
have dual cpu's? If so, that might be where it's having problems as I
ran into that on testing bare-metal recovery options this past week.<BR><BR>To
my knowledge, Knoppix and many others do not have LVM commands (vgscan,
lvcreate, etc).<BR><BR>If you're having problems trying to get vgscan to
recognize the LVM partition of your HDD, then you either have one of the
following conditions:<BR><BR>Physical failure of the HDD within that
partition<BR>Corrupt LVM structuring (but no physical failure)<BR>Trying to
access LVM2 volumes with LVM1.<BR><BR><BR>Although, if you're using the FC3
recovery disk, then it should work if you don't have issues with the drive nor
LVM corruption.<BR><BR>Backups?<BR><BR clear=all><BR>--
<BR>-Shawn<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>