Mounting a LVM partition from a linux live cd

[Matt Shields]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Try booting the Centos 5.2 installation DVD in rescue mode. It should mount
> the root and boot partitions automatically. Or, have you tried bringing up
> the kernel in run level 1, 2 or 3?. You can edit the kernel settings and try
> putting in some settings. It is possible that the kernel panic could have
> been caused by a graphics driver. The bottom line is that you should be able
> to get the system back into at least a limited operation using the rescue
> mode. At that point, you could proceed by one o a number of different
> methods.  Note that before I installed Fedora on my CentOS system I made
> sure that the rescue system would mount the LVM volumes.
>
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> Also note that not all Linux Live CDs have LVM built into the kernel.
>
>
 I tried getting into run level 1 and it did the same thing.  Not sure what
this guy did.



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-matt