Hi Matt

Matt Harrison wrote on 23/04/08 07:05:
> I've been running a gentoo system as my fileserver without problems for
> a while. Its using software raid (1+0) with lvm on top, and its been a
> dream until now.
>
> The other day I did an emerge world and had a message about an sqlite
> ebuild missing from the repository. Well I had other things to do so I
> thought I'd leave that for now (sqlite isn't critical).
>
> Now after a reboot I can't mount my LVM partitions, my raid is working
> fine, but nothing I can do will discover my lvm partitions or volumes.
> If i try to manually start the lvm service, I get the message about it
> being written for baselayout-2 and not being suitable for baselayout-1.
>
> I've managed to find some info about the OpenRC and baselayout-2 change,
> however nothing seems to apply to my situation, and I certainly never
> meant to do an upgrade that would make such a serious change.
>
> Is there some way I can recover my system without having to re-install?
> I've got a lot of data that I would cry if i lost, although I think the
> data is ok...I'm just really confused about this baselayout-2 change.
>
> Because all my partitions (except root and boot) are on LVM, I can't get
> to see if i accidentally installed something wrong, and I can't even try
> to re-emerge lvm etc.
>
> Any tips would be greately appreciated.

Add lvm to your boot run level for baselayout-2:

rc-update add lvm boot

Cheers, Dave
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