On Tuesday 09 October 2001 9:30 am, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > LVMs vgscan should happily find your VG in that changed configuration again > and "vgchange -ay" will activate it afterwards. > BTW: there's no need to change the SCSI id of HD 1. > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:15:29PM +0000, Martin Webster wrote: > > I want to remove an internal Zip drive (SCSI ID#2) to make way for a DVD > > drive. However, I have two SCSI drives set-up with LVM as follows and > > realise that removing the Zip drive will cause a number of problems. > > Here's my current configuration: > > > > sda Hard disk 0 (boot) - ID#0 > > sdb Zip disk - ID#1 > > sdc Hard disk 1 - ID#2 > > cdrecorder - ID#6 > > > > / (root) is /dev/sdc5 (reiserfs) > > /boot is /dev/sda5 (ext2) > > swap is /dev/sda6 > > Everything else is on the LVM spanning two physical volumes: one logical > > volume. > > > > And here's what I plan to do: > > > > 1. Unplug the Zip drive and change SCSI ID of Hard disk 1 to ID#1 > > 2. Boot system into single user mode: linux S root=/dev/sdb5 > > 3. Remount root filesystem and /boot as read/write: > > mount -n -o remount, rw / > > mount -n -o remount, rw /boot > > 4. Edit /etc/lilo.conf and change instances of "sdc " to "sdb" > > 5. Run mk_initrd followed by LILO: > > mk_initrd && /sbin/lilo > > 6. Re-boot > > > > What I am uncertain of is whether this approach will work with LVM. Can > > any one advise? > > > > BTW, I'm using SuSE 7.2 Professional. Heinz, Many thanks! All is well with my system now. M -- Martin Webster <mwebster@ntlworld.com> Registered Linux User #230322 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/
