From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.9]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0HF0urN015146 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:00:56 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.123]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p0HF0jQD009151 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:00:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4D3459A1.9020302@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:00:49 -0500 From: Phillip Susi MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4D344FA8.2020101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D344FA8.2020101@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] grub written over lvm partition Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Cc: Mauricio Tavares What does "rather unhappy" mean? The upgrade process remembers what device you installed grub to before and uses the same location when grub needs to be reinstalled. Also, installing grub to /dev/sda1 only modifies sector zero, which LVM does not use, so while it may not boot, it wouldn't cause any harm. On 1/17/2011 9:18 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I was given an ubuntu desktop which has an interesting problem. It > has only one HD with two partitions: /boot and LVM. In this computer, > the lvm partition is the first one (/dev/sda1); I guess that is how > ubuntu used to do things. > > During the last OS upgrade someone told the updater to put grub on the > first partition. As a result, the lvm partition got rather unhappy. Is > there a way to retrieve data off that partition?