On Thursday December 24 2009 13:25:11 Chris Smart wrote: > 2009/12/24 Dj YB <yehielb@xxxxxxx>: > > thanks > > I have noticed that the uuids are the same > > how do you suggest doing what you said, and how do i make grub use this > > idntification > > and uuids? > > YB > > Boot your normal Fedora, once booted plug in the USB drive. > > Scan for and activate all lvm volumes: > su -c "vgscan && vgchange -ay" > > Then have a look at what volumes you have. The first VolGroup should > be your internal drive. > > You'll need to run something like: > su -c "vgrename VolGroup1 usbdrive" > > You can tell grub to boot the USB drive by replacing its GRUB entry > from root=blahblah with root=/dev/mapper/usbdrive-lv_root > > Of course, your initramfs also needs to support booting from USB.. > > -c > thanks this is vgscan output: [root@localhost djyb]# vgscan File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgscan invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not /dev/sdb2 Found volume group "VolGroup" using metadata type lvm2 while sdf is the usb-hdd and sdb is the internal hdd. this is vgchange output: [root@localhost djyb]# vgchange -ay File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgchange invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not /dev/sdb2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup" now active this is vgrename output: [root@localhost djyb]# vgrename VolGroup usbFC11 File descriptor 3 (/proc/16681/status) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 4 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 5 (/lib/libnspr4.so) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 6 (/dev/nvidiactl) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 7 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 8 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 9 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 10 (/dev/nvidia0) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash File descriptor 11 (inotify) leaked on vgrename invocation. Parent PID 16857: bash Found duplicate PV OZG9Z5DZ1BG0aN0uFilnjKpoluv1iKzZ: using /dev/sdf2 not /dev/sdb2 Volume group "VolGroup" still has active LVs I have no idea what to do next, please help thanks a lot, YB. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
