drew einhorn wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@activenetwerx.com
wrote:
The part I'm not certain about is the grub voodoo to get the system to boot to the lvm with the restored root file system.
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The seems to be something here that I don't get!
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I do have a level 0 dump of /boot in addition to the level 0 dump of /
I can restore the contents of /boot and / but things will proabably not end up in the same physical sectors. Running grub the right way should update parameter for the boot loader to first tranfer control to the right place in /boot which then accesses the right filesytem in the right PV/LV
You seem to be saying that all I need to to do is tweak /etc/fstab in the root file system in the new pvn/lvm.
Actually as I try to explain my current understanding things are getting clearer.
It seems to me that at least one more step is required. getting a proper
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I think I know what you need to do: once you've got the /boot restored, and the LVM mounted (the liveCD ought to let you do that), then you need to chroot to the mounted fixed drives, and grub-install /dev/sda (or whatever it is). Then you may want to edit /boot/grub/device.map to only show (hd0,0). And DON'T FORGET to create /boot/grub/grub.conf!
That should do it.
mark "just did it last week"