Re: [PLUG] Boot disk supporting lvm

[Gordon Dexter <gordon@texasdex.com>]

You wouldn't happen to be having this issue, would you?:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/28/2112208/Some-Windows-Apps-Make-GRUB-2-Unbootable?from=rss

Really it should be possible for you to reinstall Grub without completely reinstalling the OS, but I'll assume you have some other reason (e.g. updating).

Assuming you tried doing lvm vgscan and that didn't do anything, I'd say any recent live CD should work.  The latest Ubuntu live CD will do in a pinch.

Of course, the nice part about Linux is that for future reinstalls you can put /home on a completely separate partition (or in this case logical volume) from / and save almost all hassle when reinstalling (unless you plan to upgrade to Luks+lvm whole disk encryption or something).

--Gordon

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:

Grub dead again. Plan to reinstall the OS, but need to save stuff in /home. Need a recommendation for a boot disk to mount /dev/mapper/root, the lv which contains the /home directory. Google said knoppix 6.2 did this, but it doesn't seem to.

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Art Alexion

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