Hmmm ... seems oriented to LVM2, and this system apparently is using LVM1. And, all my commands pvscan or whatnot get a "cannot execute binary file" error because of library issues most likely? system is 64 bit, amd opteron. It is like I need one magic edit or command and I can get the system up and then go from there. <div>On 7/2/07, Dan Young <<a href="mailto:dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us">dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 7/2/07, David Hopkins <<a href="mailto:dahopkins429@gmail.com">dahopkins429@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On Friday, our school took a series of power hits, and our main server went > down hard. At present, it will not boot because it cannot find the > VolGroup01. The logical volume for the OS is present (VolGroup00), and > linux rescue lets me see everything on it. However, during the boot > process, when the OS (Fedora Core 4, lvm1) goes to find the other volume > group it is missing, and the boot process halts. I don't care about what is > on that volume group (I can recover it later if it can be done, or recreate > it), but ... is there a way to tell the system to not try and locate that > logical volume? Caveat emptor. Sounds like you're in a pinch so I'm just throwing this out there. >From the rescue mode, can you "vgreduce --removemissing VolGroup01"? The vgremove man page says that should make the LVM consistent, even in the absence of a disk. Note that it probably will eat the volume group. <a href="http://www.stress-free.co.nz/adventures_in_lvm">http://www.stress-free.co.nz/adventures_in_lvm</a> -- Dan Young < <a href="mailto:dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us">dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us</a>> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services 503-257-1562 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com"> K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>