On Sunday 04 July 2004 13:11, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
Yes I had terrible trouble with lvm, All the kernel updates break the lvm mappings leaving the system in an unbootable state...
I've had no such trouble with the kernel updates. However...
as for rescue, the only way I found was to reinstall over the top of the existing installation, this would put the old(default) kernel back, and allow you back into your system.
the lack of drivers for LVM2 on the rescue CD really ticked me off. I've been using SuSE since 7.1, and have *bought* every release since then. I've always been happy with the fact that they've pushed the edge as far as what they put it their release, but didn't seem to sacrifice stability. I put LVM on a nice new AMD-64 system, toyed with some of the new features, and took a huge snapshot of one of the logical volumes (I was just going to write out a bunch of data and see for myself that the snapshot retained all of the old data). The computer locked up tight as soon as I created the snapshot. No respone from the keyboard, the network, nothing. I had to power it down. Of course, when I did that, LVM was no longer able to mount the volumes properly on boot up, including the root. So, I put in the rescue disk, hoping to partially mount the system and restore the old disk structure. Too bad the driver wasn't on the disk. Instead, I spent 6 hours hunting down a CD image that had LVM2 on it. I finally found and experimental Gentoo image that had the necessary drivers. Once I burned the CD, I was up in less than 2 minutes. If they drivers had been there, and available to me in rescue mode, I could've saved 6 hours of my life. I've been an avid supported of SuSE for a number of years now. I've pushed it on my friends, my family, and my colleagues. I felt that I've given my support by purchasing the product even when ISOs where available for download. However, this incident put me in a real bind, and I'm very seriously considering never buying, or recommending the product to anyone again. I think pushing a feature such as LVM and not providing the necessary drivers in rescue mode as a huge oversight on SuSE's part. I'm very disappointed that they haven't come out and offered anything on this matter. -John