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Originally Posted by guysoft
i am not an expert on LVM, but i came across a similar error with a RAID array.
i think the problem is the initrd is lacking of the right LVM modules.
you should try and make a new initrd, maybe try with mkinitrd.yaid or mkinitramfs (rather than the original mkinitrd).
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Thank you guysoft. I have not been able to find these tools in my rescue disk but I suffer from extreme newbie-ism.
I will explain my solution as I have implemented it so far.
I don't know why, but the FC rescue disk is able to create an image of the failed system which may be mounted by typing chroot /mnt/sysimage. My file system was navigatable when mounting this. Using a separate OS from a liveCD did not allow me to do this since the hda2 was not mountable (though maybe there was another way I was not familiar with).
I had a spare HDD. I installed it, added a file system with fdisk, and formatted it. I booted the FC rescue CD and copied (cp) my desired files from the /mnt/sysimage to the new, blank HDD.
Then I booted in Knoppix and burned the files from the new HDD (hdb1 in my case) to DVD (my set up has one CD-R/RW burner and a DVD-R/RW burner).
With data in-hand, I will now attempt to revive my otherwise damaged system. Most likely I will save myself the headache and just reinstall the OS.
What a lesson.