>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:55 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kelly F. Hickel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I guess that I'm out of luck. It says that there are no valid > partition tables on any of my devices, I have no idea how that could > have possibly happened, but I seem to have no choices left except to > reinstall.
If you used the fdisk command instead of the fdasd command, fdisk will report that, since DASD volumes aren't set up in such a way that fdisk will work on them. SCSI over FCP will, but not DASD. I suspect your partition definitions are still there. > I guess that I also don't really understand how it could be getting far > enough along in a normal boot to get the kernel loaded to the point of > activating the volume groups, if there aren't any partition tables. Because the system is still running off a ram disk at that point. > Am I missing something about lvm? Do I have to do some mdadm commands to > reassemble these devices into a working filesystem before I can do > anything? I thought that they would have had to have valid partition > tables before I could do that...... No, vgscan should do it for you, followed by vgchange -a y if things are in working order. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
