Re: how to boot a system with a broken but non-essential LVM VG

2013-05-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm reluctant to eliminate the bad LV's because there's still a faint hope of recovering the failed disk. As for using --partial, the problem is that I don't know how to intervene in the current vgchange activation that's going on. If I could, I would just avoid activating the damaged VG at all. R

Re: how to boot a system with a broken but non-essential LVM VG

2013-05-15 Thread emmanuel segura
Look this http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/lost_PV_remove_from_VG.html 2013/5/16 Ross Boylan > One of the disks that was in an LVM Volume Group died, as a result of > which LVM reports an error when the system starts. I believe because of > the errors from lvm t

how to boot a system with a broken but non-essential LVM VG

2013-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
One of the disks that was in an LVM Volume Group died, as a result of which LVM reports an error when the system starts. I believe because of the errors from lvm the boot sequence stops. After several minutes it times out. At that point a shell prompt appears. The missing physical disk is