Hey, this is getting to be fun. I've gotten into rescue mode as described in the manual Brad referenced below and was able to follow the script but it doesn't tell me how to finish.
An 'lvm vgscan' found VolGroup00 The 'lvm vgchange -a y' found the 11 volumes and activated VolGroup00 I was able to mount all file systems under /mnt/sysimage/* Now what, the chapter ends? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Brad Hinson Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:49 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Broken logical volume group Mark Post wrote: >>>> On 2/17/2009 at 1:17 PM, "Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]" >>>> <baue...@mail.nih.gov> > wrote: >> Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the >> logical volume was corrupted and I got dropped down to the Repair Filesystem >> prompt. One big problem is /usr is empty so none of the logical volume >> commands are availably. > > They're not in /sbin? Are you getting to the point that the root file system > is mounted, or are you still in the initrd? I.e., is your root file system > an LV, or not? If it's an LV, then you'll need to reboot from your > installation kernel and initrd, or whatever other rescue system Red Hat > provides. And then for all future builds, remember to not have "/" be an LV. > > > Mark Post > Hi Bobby, fyi, rescue mode is documented in the RHEL 5.2 Redbook, in section 13.4.2: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247492.html Rescue mode has all commands necessary to bring the LVM online and fix it. There are pluses and minuses to "/" on LVM. Bit of a holy war at times.. one of the minuses cited is administration through rescue mode. It is, however, fully documented in the above link. -Brad > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Brad Hinson <bhin...@redhat.com> Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z Red Hat, Inc. (919) 754-4198 www.redhat.com/z ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
