[solved] Update got me stuck on boot after activating lvm

Question

I did an update which contained a new kernel.  Now the system just hangs after this...
Activating logical volumes
4 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active.
Now I've booted in the live environment and use vgscan and vgchange -ay and I can see my partitions in /dev/mapper.  /boot is on it's own partition, not on lvm.
I believe I need to rebuild the image, but I'm unsure as to how I should mount my partitions, and which partitions I should mount.  root, var, swap  and home are on lvm.  I tried figuring it out with the wiki, but my brain is burnt, and I'm really going nowhere fast.  Anybody could take pity on me and just give me the answer of what come next?
Last edited by jpsimard (2012-04-28 01:11:11)

Answer 1

boast wrote:Can you tell me everything you did? I need help
I had the same problem. Here's a step by step solution:
* Boot a live cd
* # vgchange -ay
* Mount your / partition to a folder
* Bind proc, dev and sys like this:
mount -t proc proc ${your-root}/proc
mount -t sysfs sys ${your-root}/sys
mount -o bind /dev ${your-root}/dev
* # chroot ${your-root} /bin/bash
Once you are in the chroot, mount your boot partition to /boot (do this *inside* the chroot!)
* #mkinitcpio -p linux
* reboot
Hope it helps