LVM might have locked me out

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 26/10/2007, rchamberland <rchamberland at chs.ca> wrote:
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> I'm using RHEL4.  I had a system with RAID1/5 where the RAID 5 disks were
> uninitialized, so I went into LVM and created some logical volumes out of
> them.  I didn't know what to mount them to so I set them to mount to / until
> I figured that out.  I created the volumes, then locked the machine and went
> to lunch.
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> When I came back my password wasn't working, the lock screen won't let me
> change login, and when I SSH into the machine my root and user passwords
> aren't being accepted.  Ctl-Alt-F1 gives me a login prompt only, when I
> enter something it just gives me another login prompt, no password request.
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> Looks like I messed up.
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> I'm not sure how to proceed now.  Any suggestions?  I'm not exactly sure how
> I messed up, but I guess the OS can't find /etc/passwd now? I'm afraid to
> cold reboot in case it makes the problem worse.
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You might be able to cold boot into single user mode.  If not, cold
boot off an installation CD into rescue mode.  In both cases, fix
/etc/fstab.

Kind regards,

Herta