Upgrade went wrong to box using lvm

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Ben Edwards spake thusly on 153941928 ::
> 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 'default' 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

Heck I was never even able to get that far. It seemed impossible to have
two Linux distros (both using LVM) sharing the same drive. I gave up.



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            Scott
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