grub configuration, boot.
Dj YB
yehielb at mail.ru
Thu Dec 24 22:17:43 UTC 2009
On Thursday December 24 2009 13:25:11 Chris Smart wrote:
> 2009/12/24 Dj YB <yehielb at mail.ru>:
> > thanks
> > I have noticed that the uuids are the same
> > how do you suggest doing what you said, and how do i make grub use this
> > idntification
> > and uuids?
> > YB
>
> Boot your normal Fedora, once booted plug in the USB drive.
>
> Scan for and activate all lvm volumes:
> su -c "vgscan && vgchange -ay"
>
> Then have a look at what volumes you have. The first VolGroup should
> be your internal drive.
>
> You'll need to run something like:
> su -c "vgrename VolGroup1 usbdrive"
>
> You can tell grub to boot the USB drive by replacing its GRUB entry
> from root=blahblah with root=/dev/mapper/usbdrive-lv_root
>
> Of course, your initramfs also needs to support booting from USB..
>
> -c
>
thanks
this is vgscan output:
[root at localhost djyb]# vgscan
File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857:
bash
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not
/dev/sdb2
Found volume group "VolGroup" using metadata type lvm2
while sdf is the usb-hdd and sdb is the internal hdd.
this is vgchange output:
[root at localhost djyb]# vgchange -ay
File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent
PID 16857: bash
File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857:
bash
Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not
/dev/sdb2
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup" now active
this is vgrename output:
[root at localhost djyb]# vgrename VolGroup usbFC11
File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent
PID 16857: bash
File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID
16857: bash
File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857:
bash
Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not
/dev/sdb2
Volume group "VolGroup" still has active LVs
I have no idea what to do next, please help
thanks a lot,
YB.
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