I recently installed gentoo with lvm2 for my root partition and a separate data partition. Everything works wonderfully when I cleanly umount and either reboot or poweroff my system; however, hard reboots gives me an error about the root device not being available (because it hasn't been fsck'ed). I'm then left with a 'boot:' prompt and type 'shell' which drops me into ash with very few utils.
If I run the following string of commands frome the live cd, I can reboot without any problem. # vgscan && vgchange -a y && jfs_fsck /dev/vga/root && jfs_fsck /dev/vga/video && reboot Here's what I'm looking for: I'd like to know if there is a prebuilt rescue kernel that would drop me into either an ramdisk environment or my /boot partition with the tools listed above. My cdrom is only temporarily installed otherwise, I would probably just use the livecd on the rare occasions of bad poweroff. I've googled for rescue kernels and tried grabbing the kernel from the livecd but none dropped me into a prompt. My bootloader is grub and my boot partition is ext2 if that is important. Thank you for your time. -- Travis Osterman -- [email protected] mailing list
