rescue cd for amd64/lvm?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2007-16-04 at 22:45 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > my system has somehow gotten hosed (i suspect my son pulling the plug
> > had something to do with it); the boot process stalls when it gets to
> > mounting the root filesystem, which is an lvm filesystem.  i would like
> > to boot into a cd environment and chroot into the old filesystem, but am
> > having trouble finding an amd64 rescue cd on which lvm actually works.
> > i i tried ubuntu feisty but the lvm tools are missing; when i tried to
> > apt-get update i got an error about "no lvscan found for the version of
> > LVM on your computer" -- i don't know whether that perhaps has something
> > to do with the kernel or some such.  And i386 images can't read my amd64
> > filesystems.  So does anyone have any suggestions?  thanks muchly,
> > 
> 
> Why can't i386 images read your amd64 filesystems?  I thought all the 
> filesystems used the same format (with the exception of XFS log 
> structure, that if needed you can dump with xfs_repair
> 
> 
i'm not sure how this works, but the 64-bit adressingmesses something
up.  actually it seems i CAN read the filesystem, but can't execute
anything from within it.  

matt

> 
> (sorry, I know I did not answer your question.)
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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