[ale] Can't Log In After LVM2 Removal

[Jeff Hubbs]

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 
> <mailto: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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