Upgrade went wrong to box using lvm

[Ben Edwards]

On 25/06/07, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just tried to do an upgrade from breezy to feisty on a box that
> was using Logical Volume Manager (it was a 'defailt' install, I think
> there was only one group.
>
> I did the install from the command line, I remmed out universe etc.
> and changed all occurences of breezy to fiesty.  I then did apt-get
> update, apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> During the install the apt-get just hung so I ended up rebooting.
> When the box came up all I got was a ash shell.
>
> Not being able to complete the stall is OK, the thing is I want to get
> some of the data of the hard disk.  Am I going to be able to put the
> hard disk onto another box and access the data, I guess I will need to
> mount the lvm volumes on another box.
>
> In retrospect I should not of used lvm;(

It anyone else stumbles across this thread there is quite a good hoto
at http://www.linux-sxs.org/storage/fedora2ubuntu.html witch tells you
how to mount lvm drives without knowing the group setup.

Ben

> Any help much appreciated,
> Ben
>
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