[linux-lvm] pvmove didn't work - now system won't boot

[Luca Berra]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:29:41AM -0500, Chad Rebuck wrote:
>I ran "pvmove -v /dev/hdc2" to move the data off the drive but it
>stopped before any real drive activity happened.  The system was stuck
>for about 30 minutes not doing anything so I powered off/on.  Now it
>boots into a bash prompt but suggests I run fsck manually.  I noticed
>that lvm only reported that 2 of the 3 physical volumes were found.  I
>can't run any lvm commands from here as I get a 'Locking type 1
>initialization failed'.
>
run lvm commands with --ignorelockingfailure option

>What steps do I take to get the system to boot again?  The root dir is
>part of the lvm volume.  The /boot is separate from the lvm volume but
>maybe this is required anyway for lvm to work.
>
>Thanks,
>Chad
>
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