I have an FC3 system, that was happy, but is now unhappy. This may be related to someone, who shall remain nameless, having shut off the power on it without doing an orderly shutdown. Then again, maybe it was because of a "yum -y update", because I put off rebooting for a while after that. Anyway, now when it tries to boot, I see: Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active ...and that's it. I've left it there for over and hour, and it never gets past that. I booted off of an FC3 rescue cd, and found that I could mount the /boot partition, but I cannot mount the / partition. I ran various lvm commands that identified two lvm volumes on the system. fsck'ing /dev/hda2 (which is /) is getting me no where though - it just says "invalid argument". I tried firing up device mapper and udev in order to get a /dev/VolGroup00 directory, but it just wouldn't do it - at least, not with the things I tried. I could mkdir the directory, but then "lvm vgmknodes" would remove it. What do I need to do to get past this? There's stuff in the filesystem I want quite a bit. :-S I tried all 3 FC3 kernels I have on the system, but none would come up, getting stuck at that same point. Thanks!
