[ale] Can't Log In After LVM2 Removal

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon May 24 12:10:09 EDT 2010


works best with UUID names

You may need to turn off selinux as  a test. If that solves the problem,
then you need to force a relabel with touch /.autorelabel

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

>  Fstab was changed from the labels to the device names (e.g. /dev/sda3).
> Are you saying that won't work in RH-alikes?
>
>
> On 5/24/10 11:37 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> centos and RH use partition names in /etc/fstab. If the LVM stack is
> removed, the partition naming is now gone.
>
> It's easier to reinstall and manually create partitions than to migrate
> from LVM to not-LVM.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to take the default LVM2 arrangement out from within a CentOS
>> 5.4 install and replace it with the classic three-primary-partition
>> arrangement...my machine boots up and I get a login prompt, but when I
>> try to log in I see for an instant "no shell. permission denied."  Net
>> doesn't start so I can't shell in.
>>
>> Permissions of /root, /bin/bash, /etc/passwd and everything else I can
>> think of are rwx for root...the tarball I made from the LV contents used
>> a "p" in the args coming and going.
>>
>> I've put some things in root's crontab and rc.local that do file writes;
>> I am led to believe that my / is read-only when I boot.
>>
>> I can boot up to single-user mode and my / is read-write, for what it's
>> worth.
>>
>> What might I have missed?
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