On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? >> > Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! >> >> As I said before, I have no experience with LVMs and therefore >> can't be of much help on a recovery. Sorry. > > All of the data (except for the boot dir which was not in LVM) should be > perfectly intact. > I need a live CD which supports LVM (Knoppix 5.* does not) which will mount > these volumes. > From there, I can either copy off needed data to another disk or chroot, > reinstall some kernel images and set up lilo or grub and be up and running. > That live CD is the key. Which one?
As I said in an earlier email, you can install LVM while booted from a Live CD. Since this is Debian, why not a Debian Live CD?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
