I'm not sure I understand here.....You were creating a snapshot volume to backup your system, and the system locked. I get that. What is the error you are seeing when the system boots now? Tom Callahan TESSCO Technologies Desk: (410)-229-1361 Cell: (410)-588-7605 Email: callahant@xxxxxxxxxx A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable. kit kit wrote: >Hi, > >I am using centos 4.2, ext3 partition and lvm2 on my pc. Recently, I tried to use lvm snapshot volume to back up my root partition. But suddenly, the system hung on creating snapshot volume. (my machine always hang from time to time for unknown reason and i suspect that was a hardware problem). Then I booted into rescue mode and removed the snapshot volume, fsck the root partition with options -p -f -c and the report says no bad blocks. Still I cannot boot up the system normally. What else can I do to recover the system without restoring backup? > >I only have backups of root partition made with taring the lvm snapshot volume of root partition before, I am not sure if this is enough to recover the system in this situation. If backup restoration is required, all I need to do is to only boot in rescue mode and extract the tarball to replace everything? I haven't tried that before. > >Also, the thing that bothers me most is that everytime the system boots after unclean shutdown (system previously hung for unknown reason), it will prompt for file system integrity check for 5 seconds. If i press Y, then the system seems to be checking the disk for few minutes (the disk led is flashing), then the display will display entirely and the led is not flashing!!!! if I don't press anything or press N, the display will disappear immediately. How comes??? In previous boot failures after unclean shutdown, I can still recover the system with fsck in rescue mode, but this time system hung on creating snapshot volume, the trick doesn't work. > >Please help. > >Thanks, >VOA > >_______________________________________ > YM - 離線訊息 > 就算你沒有上網，你的朋友仍可以留下訊息給你，當你上網時就能立即看到，任何說話都冇走失。 > http://messenger.yahoo.com.hk > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
