On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:16:44 +0100 (CET)
"Carlos E. R."
The Thursday 2004-12-30 at 21:20 -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
I had partitioned it with a 100mb "/boot", 512MB swap and the rest as an LVM storage group, which I then divided up into "/", "/var", "/cache" and "/mythtv".
The only unorthodox thing I did (and I say that only in hindsight) was use the partition editor to change my "/mythtv" partition from Reiser to XFS while the partition was mounted. I had read that was much larger for large file. When I rebooted no I got a screen fully of numbers (TTY1, TTY2, ....) and no root partition found.
I'm not familiar with LVM, but you can not reformat a mounted partition. I'm very surprised that yast allowed it. And, if you did succeed, I think the filesystem could be completely gaga. And it was... so that could be the reason.
I'm also unfamiliar with LVM, but you might try Knoppix to see what you may be able to salvage. I don't think you can hope to mount an LVM (which, I thought, and I've not checked before writing this, requires all parts to be the same file system), where a significant part is corrupted. HTH Terence