--- Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eugenio > Diaz > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:26 AM > > To: Cooker Mailing List > > Subject: [Cooker] Help with LVM! > > > > My machine at work is an install of MandrakeFreq ISOs from June (I > think > > 0622), and last Friday I upgraded the kernel packages to the latest > > cooker (at that time) because of the big DoS and local root holes > > discovered. After I rebooted, I was confronted with a huge problem, my > > LVM (yes I managed to do an LVM install from those ISOs ;-) ) volumes > > were not recognized! I can boot, since my root is not on lvm; after > > playing with the lvm tools for a while, I managed to wipe the config > > files in /etc, but I think that is not a problem, since vgscan should > > rebuilt them. I was able to insert the lvm module, and get a /proc > dir, > > but I was not able to read the physical volume ... > > > > Your June version did not use devfs and now Mandrake does. It means that > partition names have changed - instead of hda4 and like you get > ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4. Look into /proc/partitions. > > If vgscan does not find them it means you do not mount devfs and new > names do not exist.
Are you positive about this, and that I do not have to use the "uuid_fixer" utility? > > I guess I need to install a new set of the lvm tools (I am compiling > > them statically from the rpm right now); am I right? > > > > No. Add devfs=mount to kernel options and reboot.. Or recompile kernel > without devfs. Would this work even if I did not upgraded any other packages beside the kernel? Is there a way to tell the kernel to fall back to the old /dev as a parameter like devfs=off? Remember that I can only mount the root partition when I boot ... Thanks ===== ________________________ Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
