akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:42:00AM -0500, Joe Dolence wrote: > >>Well, I don't know what happened to my system (Fedora Core 3). It's been >>a few days since I've used it as I've been trying out Fdora Core 4 Test >>1 on a another system. This evening, I tried to boot up the system with >>Fedora Core 3 on it, this is a dual boot machine with Windows XP (The XP >>part works). >> > > <snip> > >>I tried to boot with the Repair CD and see what I can do, There are 3 >>partitions on the drive, the first is for Windows XP, the second is the >>/boot for the Fedora Core 3 installation and the 3rd is this LVM, I >>presume it's the rest of the Fedora Core 3 installation. I can mount the >> /dev/hda2 partition and see the /boot directory, but I don't know how, >>if possible, to mount the /dev/hda3 (LVM) partiton, to try and "fix" it. >> >>Does anyone have any recommenatins on how to "repair" this situation? Or >>at least where I can look to find the answer. I've looked around for a >>few hours on the fedora list... searched google for info on LVM (I can't >>even seem to locate a man page for LVM, as I've run LVM from the rescue >>CD and could check out info on the LVM, but the help screen only shows >>the last 25 or so available "commands")... I saw a few items that looked >> similar, but no references to dm-0 (what is that?) or how to fix this >>particular situation. >> >>Thanks, >>Joe > > All sorts of LVM infoirmation can be gotten by googling LVN Fedora Core > 3. I mentioned that I searched quite a bit before asking the question. And I've searched even more since then. I've picked up some "LVM" commands and was at least able to get the "VolGroup00" listed in the /dev folder. There are 2 files in the /dev/VolGroup00 folder called LogVol00 and LogVol01. One is the root directory and the other is the swap partition, I'm quite sure. I still haven't figured out how to mount this yet, at least to make sure I get some files off of it, but I was hoping I could get the system going again. Again, any help from someone who might have solved this problem would be great. The /boot partition seems fine, I'm able to mount that after booting off the rescue CD and edit the grub.conf file. What else could be broken? Would re-installing grub maybe fix the problem on not being able to "mount" the LVM? Grub seem to be working fine. Thanks, Joe
