RE: Trying to convert a LVM partition to non-LVM


Subject: RE: Trying to convert a LVM partition to non-LVM


Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
My question becomes, "What file(s) other than fstab and grub.conf
need to change to change the root parttion from an LVM parition
to a normal ext partition such as sda2?"

Recreate the mkinitrd in your /boot.

Boot from a rescue disk, mount your system and chroot into that.
You can run mkinitrd manually (needs a filename /boot/initrd...
and the kernel version) or you can trigger the steps that happen
when you install a new kernel, by using a rpm -Uhv --oldpackage
kernel... or running the script the rpm would run
(rpm -q --scripts kernel prints something like
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod
--install 2.6...
)

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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it

THANKS ROBERTO!
This looks like a winner. I will try this method on a test
machine shortly.
--
Somewhat Solved,

After the partitions were copied over, I needed to get rid of the
references to the logical volume manager in serveral files:
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
/boot/grub/grub.conf

Then run:
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.el5.img 2.6.18-53.el5
Replace the version info by whatever kernel is loaded.

Then run grub and enter:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)


I still go some funny udev errors, but the system came up.
There may be other files which need to be cleaned up that
I have not found yet, but at least the system came up.

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