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<font size="2">> Hi Maurice,
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>> > There is/was a long-term fix in the works, but obviously there is
a lot
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>> > of scope for this going wrong if it were deployed to lots of
machines!
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>
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> Wasn't there an update release to address this?
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It's fixed for new Scientific Linux based BlueOnyx installs, as I worked
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that into the CD installer. This happened earlier last year (April
<br />>
2012?) or thereabouts.
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However, I didn't release a YUM update to fix it automatically on older
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SL based BlueOnyx installs. While the fix is trivial, I'm not really
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keen to push out an update that has the small chance that hundreds of
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servers might not come up after their next reboot.
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I have seen isolated cases where /etc/grub.conf (which usually is
<br />>
perfect) didn't contain all the needed entries, were missing the actual
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kernel or had other kernel parameters than the faulty copy in
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/boot/grub/grub.conf. So just copying over grub.conf and placing a
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symlink might work for 98.5% of the cases. But I can't risk the
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potential damage for those where it might not work.
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--
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With best regards
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Michael Stauber
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<br /><font size="2">Apparently<font size="2">, I'm one of the <font size="2">'lucky' 1.5<font size="2">%.
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<br />I still have a virtual machine that</font></font></font></font> won't boot - because the initial start kernel in /boot can't load the correct driver<font size="2"> to mount & access the<font size="2"> L<font size="2">VM partition with /root in it. So apparently, the /boot/grub/grub.co<font size="2">nf</font> did not get correctly updated.</font></font></font>
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<br /><font size="2">If <font size="2">I could just mount that LVM partition, I could copy o<font size="2">ver the /etc/grub.conf. But I can't figure out how to get into that LVM partition<font size="2"> u<font size="2">sing a Rescu<font size="2">e CD image, or using a Knoppix Live CD image. :-<font size="2">(
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<br /><font size="2">I still need to get this 5107R VM to boot - there is data on it that we don't have a b<font size="2">ackup<font size="2">. And it <font size="2">would cost us a lot to recreate!
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<br />Any<font size="2">one have any idea how to mount a LVM partition using a Live CD??</font>
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<br /><font size="2">Chuck
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