drew einhorn wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Joseph L. Casale > <jcasale at 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. <snip> > The seems to be something here that I don't get! <snip> > > 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 <snip> 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"