From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lilo wrote to an lvm disk Message-ID: <20030402072605.GC27228@percy.comedia.it> References: <1049253225.1486.7.camel@jb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1049253225.1486.7.camel@jb> 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: Wed Apr 2 01:26:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:13:45PM -0600, Justin Bauer wrote: >Hi, > >I was having trouble earlier with lilo, and while configuring it, I >wrote it to the mbr on a disk I had lvm on. The only place I found that >mentioned this problem was in an email to this list in march 2001, over >two years ago. It basically said that the lvm disk would be hosed. Is >there anyway to get the data off the disk? or repair it? if you have a recent metadata backup you can try using vgcfgrestore to put the metadata back on the disk. other options depend on what was the disk layout: was it the only disk you had in the volume group? are there lv sharing more than one pv? do you recall the LV layout? >Also, in the future, could I use the mbr if the pv was a partition >rather than the whole disk? that would be a good idea. as much as i hate partition tables i found that just too much code in linux applications depend on having a partition table, so wasting 512bytes for a partition table entry is easier than fixing everything that breaks. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \