Hi Paul Several things: 1.several method to mount your root a)using "raidautorun" to detect the MDs. b)using "raidstart -a -c $RAIDTAB", here you may can not get the raidtab file, you need to compile one manually. Alternatilvey, "mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/disks", (because the / is md1, and I assume that /dev/hda3 is one of the partition in the md1). 2./boot can be installed on md0? Message: 4 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:43:41 -0500 From: Paul Pianta <pantz@lqt.ca> Subject: lvm liveCD help needed To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Message-ID: <1109195021.4695.65.camel@aragorn.intranet> Content-Type: text/plain Hi people I have a little problem that I was hoping someone might be able to help me with. I 'text mode' installed a FC1 installation and was unable to configure the volume groups or logical volumes (limitation of text mode :( ...). I thought "that's ok - I will just create them later!" - and this is where my problem began :) I configured the 2 x 200G ide drives with software raid as follows: /dev/md0 - /boot - 100M /dev/md1 - / - 10G /dev/md2 - swap /dev/md3 - one big physical volume (lvm) ~185G The system is installed and I assume that it all went onto /dev/md1. What I wanted to do was to put /usr, /var, and /home in logical volumes in one large volume group as such: /vgRoot/lvUsr - 10G /vgRoot/lvHome - 20G /vgRoot/lvVar - 120G with 30G free for playing around with later Now ... I have a gentoo live cd (with lvm support) and I assume this is what I need to use to 1. create the volume group vgRoot 2. create the three logical volumes lvUsr, lvHome, lvVar 3. copy /usr, /home, /var from /dev/md1 over to these newly created logical volumes 4. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new partition layout 5. reboot and dance around the room with my pants down singing 'oh what a beautiful morning' My problem is I don't know how to access the lvm support on the gentoo live cd and even worse than that - I don't know how to get at my / partition with the live cd because it is a software raid partition and I don't know how to go about mounting it. Any ideas would be much appreciated - and I will promise not to drop my pants whilst singing if we can get this figured out :) thanks pantz _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
