On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Lee Gold wrote:
How can this be right? I clearly remember installing the /boot as an
ext3 partiton.
sudo pvs says:
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda1 lvm2 a- 190.00m 190.00m
/dev/sda2 system lvm2 a- 92.97g 0
I can mount the partitons in /dev/sda2 by installing LVM2 while using
the live disk and some command-line - so I can recover the data if
necessay so all is not lost. But I would really like to know what is
going on and how to get the system booting again. Again the boot
partition was ext3 and separate, why can't I access it, fdisk
confirms...? Thanks.
I would suspect that sda and sdb do not point to the disks you think
they do. BIOS often swaps these around without warning. You don't mention
your physical connection (IDE/SATA/USB/FW/iSCSI/...). This would give a clue
as to what BIOS might have done - although it really isn't an LVM question.
This is why it is preferred to use filesystem/PV UUIDs or labels
rather that whatever the current device address happens to be.
So it looks like you made /boot into a PV, although pvcreate should have
warned that the block device was mounted.
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