Hi, Alan. On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:11 on Sunday 10 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly:
> > Hi, Gentoo. > > My new(ish) amd64 system has two 1TB HDDs in a (software) RAID1, and > > practically the entire system is under an LVM2. > > I rather unwisely made this addition to the startup stuff: > > ls -s /usr/bin/svscanboot /etc/init.d/ > > rc-update add svscanboot default > > , and now the box hangs during boot up. > > On the same box, I also have a "trial" installation which boots and I > > still have the installation CD from about a year ago. > > Would somebody please help me get into my system sufficiently to > > correct my mistake on the boot scripts. Pointing me in the direction > > of a fine manual section would be regarded as help. > Boot the trial installation which does boot. > vgchange -ay > find and mount your lvm volumes somewhere > now you can access that dodgy symlink to delete it > Maybe there's other steps (like loading kernel modules), but I'm > assuming you know your way around to find and detect those. It turns out I panicked needlessly, since my root partition is on /dev/sdb1. I didn't manage to figure out how to get / onto the LVM2 way back when. I'm glad I didn't delete the "trial" installation, which I'm renaming to "rescue" :-). Thanks for the tip. I've a feeling I'll be needing vgchange sometime or other. > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
