[clue-tech] Pristine root for restore

[Collins Richey]

On 7/23/06, mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > When booting from CD in rescue mode, have you tried
> > skipping the scan
> > for RedHat systems? This will get you to a shell
> > prompt without
> > mounting anything.
>
> The scan seems to be required to get the logical
> volume
> devices set up in accord with the previous/existing
> system. Learning to set up lvm from rescue would be a
> value in this type of situation :)
>

It's doable; you just need to remember the command to activate LVM.
Every time I do this, I say I'm going to write it down, but I didn't.
You can find it by searching the boot scripts, since the same command
has to be issued during a normal boot.

-- 
Collins Richey
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