I'm not 100% sure that this will work, however it shouldn't hurt either...
As root:
mkdir /oldboot
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 /oldboot
The file systems should now be available off of /oldboot
If you want to make it available and mounted at boot time, update your fstab
Hope this helps...
> Good afternoon, Chris.
>
> My problem is related but not exactly the same. In my case I have
> upgraded from FC5 to F9 by doing a fresh install on a new hard drive,
> and I need to mount the old FC5 boot disk to copy some stuff off of it.
>
> "mount /dev/sdb2 /driveb" doesn't work for the reasons noted
> (/dev/sdb2 is a container and not a volume).
>
> So, I said "lvm vgscan" and got:
>
> File descriptor 20 left open
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>
> Then I said "pvs" and got:
>
> File descriptor 20 left open
> PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
> /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 111.59G 32.00M
> /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 76.22G 32.00M
>
> (Hope the formatting and column alignment on the above doesn't come
> through all screwed up...)
>
> Apparently it thinks that both volumes are named VolGroup00 (instead
> of ...00 and ...01) so things like lvm vgchange don't do any good
> because it doesn't know which VolGroup00 to make available.
>
> /dev/mapper contains:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 2008-09-22 11:20 control
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2008-09-22 15:20 VolGroup00-LogVol00
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 2008-09-22 11:20 VolGroup00-LogVol01
>
> ... with no corresponding LogVol00/01 for VolGroup01 (since the
> system was told that both of the volumes are named VolGroup00).
>
> I've Googled everything I can think of and am out of ideas.
>
> Thanks...
TIA,
Gene Poole
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