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From: "Lee Gold" <leegold@operamail.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Help to mount ext3 boot partiton which reports it's LVM2_member when I try to mount it
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:45:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1308260745.12257.1464013973@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

Hi,

Tried adding a disk with LVM2. Rebooted maybe too soon and Grub became
confused and system will not boot.

It's Unbuntu Server 10.04. Removed new disk - grub still confused, no
boot. I put in a live Ubuntu disk to look and hopefully repair non-LVM
ext3 boot partition...somehow. But I can not mount the boot partiton.
Yet, sudo fdisk -l says ID 83, Linux for /dev/sda1 - the boot partition.
But when I try: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/bootp I get: mount:unknown
filesystem type 'LVM2_member'...fdisk reports differently...

How can this be right? I clearly remember installing the /boot as an
ext3 partiton.

sudo pvs says:

PV        VG       Fmt   Attr   PSize    PFree 

/dev/sda1          lvm2  a-     190.00m  190.00m 

/dev/sda2 system   lvm2  a-      92.97g       0

I can mount the partitons in /dev/sda2 by installing LVM2 while using
the live disk and some command-line - so I can recover the data if
necessay so all is not lost. But I would really like to know what is
going on and how to get the system booting again. Again the boot
partition was ext3 and separate, why can't I access it, fdisk
confirms...?  Thanks.

Lee G.

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-16 21:45 Lee Gold [this message]
2011-06-17  4:11 ` [linux-lvm] Help to mount ext3 boot partiton which reports it's LVM2_member when I try to mount it Stuart D. Gathman
2011-06-17 15:59   ` Lee Gold
2011-06-17 16:36     ` Ray Morris
2011-06-21 15:35     ` Phillip Susi
2011-06-29  8:47       ` [linux-lvm] Fedora 15 lvm root device not found Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)]
2011-06-29 19:47         ` Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)]
2011-07-01 15:05           ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-07-19 19:13         ` [linux-lvm] Mail etiquette ( was: Fedora 15 lvm root device not found ) Phillip Susi

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