From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Bonhote Message-ID: <20030110073438.GA31870@coffee.noc.ch.colt.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: LVM Recovery - mostly solved Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Jan 10 01:35:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Linux-LVM@Sistina.com Cc: mauelshagen@Sistina.com, beat@rubis.ch Good morning! Well, this is quite embarassing to me. Bear with me please. On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:35:35PM +0100, Andre Bonhote wrote: =20 ... > - 1 IDE drive, 80 GB ...=20 > /dev/hdc > fdisk -l shows no output. There's no partitioning. I did pvcreate /dev/h= dc. Here we go! That's the point. fdisk -l shows no output because there's no disk. Between the (doubtless incredibly dumb, but harmless) changes and the reboot, I have tried to find a place for a spare harddrive in my chassis. Doing that, the one and only IDE cable loosened. Result: /dev/hdc was gone. My focus at that time was of course elsewhere. I always have disabled IDE scanning in the BIOS, otherwise I would have noticed it immediately - the system hangs in the BIOS. Linux just says: There's no IDE drive. And Linux is right. > mount: error 2 mounting ext3 > pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 This comes clear to me now, too. I have to change Grub and/or the initrd, I guess. I will take a closer look at this this WE. =20 > no (which?) config files have been updated. Could this be a bug?=20 Of course NOT! > ... > reading data of volume group "CaradhrasVG" from physical volume(s) > ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume > group "CaradhrasVG" from physical volumes > ... It was trying to read /dev/hdc, but it didn't succeed. How should it? Well, anyway. I managed to pull down the important data. List readers/posters: A double sorry to you for wasting your precious bandwith and for holding you up. I am going to read ALL the docs I can find on sistina.com about backing up metadata, I promise. And I will think more than twice next time before posting to this list, and have a loooong nap before, too. Thanks to all & a really nice day! Andr=EF=BF=BD =20 --=20 Real programmers do "cp /dev/audio a.out" and whistle into the mike. (Randal L. Schwartz)