On Thursday 25 January 2007 15:33, Jim Moling wrote:
>That's easy - I didn't think of it (it's to easy) AND I don't know how, but
>it sure sounds like a great idea.
>I have to admit I've been relying on Yast alot so far (which I can't use at
>this point) as my repertoire of Linux commands is pretty weak (like almost
>nonexistent?) ...
>So if you can give me a hint as to how I would go about doing that - I
>assume there are line command(s) for this ...?
>Note that I am still in "maint" mode, and I don't know exactly how limited
>that is, i.e. is there anything that I might be missing that would prevent
>networking from starting?
>Of course, I suppose I will find that out as soon as I try it - nothing
>beats trial by fire, eh?
By "maint" mode, I assume you mean the superuser "repair shell" that the IPL
put you into when things came up without the LVM. The system is in
single-user mode, which just means that it has not run all the usual
boot-time initialization scripts to support multiple users. Or the network.
From single-user mode, you can tell Linux to change to multi-user mode with
network enabled with the command: "init 3". That moves you from run-level 1
(single-user) to run-level 3 (multi-user with network). You will see the
output of various initialization scripts on your console as it goes and does
that. It might terminate the shell on your console, so you might have to do
a Linux login again there.
Alternatively, you could just exit that single-user shell, and Linux should
attempt a reboot. Because you have done your mkinitrd and zipl now, it
should come up cleanly, mount and check your LVM filesystems, and
automatically go to run-level 3 for you.
It's probably overkill, but I would halt Linux, logoff the guest, logon the
guest again and IPL Linux; just to make sure that everything is set up
properly for the next time your guest gets logged off.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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