From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jA8KijV13441 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:44:45 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.198]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA8Kiclj000513 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:44:38 -0500 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so182651nfc for ; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:44:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:44:37 +0100 From: "Mr, Radiks" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_21403_15070585.1131482677714" Subject: [linux-lvm] Dead Motherboard.. LVM Problems.. 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: To: linux-lvm@redhat.com ------=_Part_21403_15070585.1131482677714 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Ok, heres my bad luck story.. have a nice happy linux box runing 3 hdd's .. 2 of them nice SATA devices (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1) and one happy go lucky 200gig /dev/hda1 now, i noticed my bios was out of date.. so figured why no= t risk an upgrade.. ... and now the horror story.. in the middle of the update.. the power to my hole house flickers off.. and very loud son of a b*tch echo's through the house.. when the power came back on, my motherboar= d was dead, nothing more than a beeping paperwight.. soo, i ran out and bough= t me a new motherboard, i even upgraded from my dead ECS 755-A2 to a nice DFI Lanparty UT nForce 3 250Gb .. i get the motherboard, hook every thing up.. it boots... and screams.. couldnt find device for uuid..... well i boot int= o linux rescue cd.. and run a nice vgscan.. pvscan.. lvscan.. and its all happy.. finds every thing has no error msgs.. i can even move around the hole LV and look at contents of files.. and every thing looks just find.. but.. still wont boot.. i gave up and figured maybe i can do a reinstall booted into the installer and it says that /dev/hda1 isnt part of VolGroup0= 0 but.. if you goto edit it.. wow magicly you can edit it.. becuase its part of VolGroup00!!! soo i cant asign my mount points becuase of size problems.= . i want to keep the data i have on this system.. i just want to be able to boot again.. this is a Fedora Core 4 system, i have the full install DVD/Rescue.. i hav= e tryed puting the disks in difrent orders, and difrent location to check and see if there might be a problem there, and have goten no change.. i will tr= y to awnser any questions to the best of my abilitys.. Drive Layout.. /dev/hda1 - 200gig LVM /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - 120gig LVM /dev/sdb1 - 140gig LVM it is using /dev/sda as the primary boot device.. i even get the full color pretty grub screen.. pvscan -u says everyone has there proper UUID's no partition changes have been made at all.. this is direct rip out of the dea= d m-board and replaced with new .. only hardware change other that the replacing of the motherboard was removing of 1 extra soundcard.. please hel= p me!. i dont have anyplace to store the 200gigs worth of importent data that= s on my linux system.. Thanks for your time, and any help you may provide.. ------=_Part_21403_15070585.1131482677714 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Ok, heres my bad luck story.. have a nice happy linux box runing 3 hdd= 's .. 2 of them nice SATA devices (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1) and one happy go l= ucky 200gig /dev/hda1 now, i noticed my bios was out of date.. so figured w= hy not risk an upgrade.. ... and now the horror story.. in the middle of th= e update.. the power to my hole house flickers off.. and very loud son of a= b*tch echo's through the house.. when the power came back on, my motherboa= rd was dead, nothing more than a beeping paperwight.. soo, i ran out and bo= ught me a new motherboard, i even upgraded from my dead ECS 755-A2 to a nic= e DFI Lanparty UT nForce 3 250Gb .. i get the motherboard, hook every thing= up.. it boots... and screams.. couldnt find device for uuid..... well i bo= ot into linux rescue cd.. and run a nice vgscan.. pvscan.. lvscan.. and its= all happy.. finds every thing has no error msgs.. i can even move around t= he hole LV and look at contents of files.. and every thing looks just find.= . but.. still wont boot.. i gave up and figured maybe i can do a reinstall = booted into the installer and it says that /dev/hda1 isnt part of VolGroup0= 0 but.. if you goto edit it.. wow magicly you can edit it.. becuase its par= t of VolGroup00!!! soo i cant asign my mount points becuase of size problem= s.. i want to keep the data i have on this system.. i just want to be able = to boot again..=20
 
this is a Fedora Core 4 system, i have the full install DVD/Rescue.. i= have tryed puting the disks in difrent orders, and difrent location to che= ck and see if there might be a problem there, and have goten no change.. i = will try to awnser any questions to the best of my abilitys..
Drive Layout..
/dev/hda1 - 200gig LVM
/dev/sda1 - /boot
/dev/sda2 - 120gig LVM
/dev/sdb1 - 140gig LVM
it is using /dev/sda as the primary boot device.. i even get the full = color pretty grub screen.. pvscan -u says everyone has there proper UUID's = no partition changes have been made at all.. this is direct rip out of the = dead m-board and replaced with new .. only hardware change other that the r= eplacing of the motherboard was removing of 1 extra soundcard.. please help= me!. i dont have anyplace to store the 200gigs worth of importent data tha= ts on my linux system..=20
 
Thanks for your time, and any help you may provide..
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