Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-25 Thread m . roth
drew einhorn wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: The part I'm not certain about is the grub voodoo to get the system to boot to the lvm with the restored root file system. snip The seems to be something here that I don't get! snip I

[CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-24 Thread drew einhorn
Hi, There's a RHEL5 system somewhere across the internet with a trashed root file system. I have VPN access to the subnet where it lives. But the system is not talking to the network. The current plan is having an onsite person boot from a CentOS Live CD, copy a small script to configure

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I'll create a new lvm logical volume, create a file system, and restore from a level 0 dump taken from a lvm snapshot just before things broke. Ok. The part I'm not certain about is the grub voodoo to get the system to boot to the lvm with the restored root file system. Look at

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-24 Thread drew einhorn
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: The part I'm not certain about is the grub voodoo to get the system to boot to the lvm with the restored root file system. Look at ./etc/lvm/backup/* in your dumped files, it will show you the VG, LV and