[sles-beta] SLE12-Beta10 - Upgrade from SLE11-SP3 - Looks better, But...

Thu Jul 17 13:32:43 MDT 2014

Many Thanks‎ Gregory, I'll try that in the morning.
__R

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  Original Message
From: Gregory D. Rosenberg
Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:08
To: Waite, Dick
Cc: Thorsten Kukuk; sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] SLE12-Beta10 - Upgrade from SLE11-SP3 -        Looks   better, But...

Good morning Dick,

The following method works well for me in rescue or recovery modes.

1) Scan physical volumes

# pvscan
  PV /dev/sda2   VG system   lvm2 [273.09 GB / 30.09 GB free]
  Total: 1 [273.09 GB] / in use: 1 [273.09 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

2) Scan volume groups

# vgscan
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "system" using metadata type lvm2

3) Scan logical volumes

# lvscan
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/swap' [4.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/usr' [6.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/opt' [4.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/backup' [60.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/tmp' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/varspool' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/varlog' [1.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/home' [20.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/var' [134.00 GB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/system/slash' [12.00 GB] inherit

4) Mount the root file system in /mnt

# mount /dev/system/slash /mnt
# mount /dev/system/usr /mnt/usr
…
# mount /dev/system/var /mnt/var

5) Using a bind mount over, mount dev, sys, and proc virtual file systems.

# mount –o bind /dev /mnt/dev
# mount –o bind /sys /mnt/sys
# mount –o bind /proc /mnt/proc

6) Change the root of the file system to /mnt. So all mounted disks appear to be in the new system root.

# chroot /mnt

At this point you can reset the root password, edit files like /etc/fstab, add or edit the grub boot menu, fix timestamps on files, or rebuild “initrd”, and load or update device drivers.

On Jul 17, 2014, at 04:10 CDT, Waite, Dick <Dick.Waite at softwareag.com> wrote:

> Many Thanks Thorsten,
>
> SR10902055991 created for the X11 UI issues.
>
> Can you offer a few words on how to start LVM from the rescue system so that I can mount the good @/var/log and its mates, or point me at the Docu that has these good words. In our world, as you can see from 12-48, we are still happy to live in the XFS world. Very happy to have your system files in the "default" file world.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:31 AM
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, Waite, Dick wrote:
>
>> Grand Sunny Morning,
>>
>> Simple upgrade from a no-network SLE11-SP3 ran well.
>
> Good to hear.
>
>> Boot into new kernel went well
>>
>> UI looked Okay, quite a happy chappy…
>>
>> No keyboard or mouse access to enviroment, not so happy.
>>
>> Used VM_Workshop command to cleanly take system down.
>>
>> Booted with rescue system…
>>
>> Tried to mount /dev/sda2 and got message attached. (09-41-16) how do you mount this?
>
> It looks like this is a LVM partition? In that case you have to start lvm at first.
>
>> Question to the wise people of SUSE, what information can I give you
>> to help debug a system that boots Okay, as far as I can tell, shows
>> the desktop but has no mouse or keyboard access? An alt_F10 did give
>> me a blank screen
>
> That would be a question for our X11 developers, I can only suggest to open a SR for them.
>
> Thorsten
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