On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:50:19PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > >> Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit > >> awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices. > >> > >> Can anyone think of a way to install a kernel .deb without having > >> /usr mounted? > > > > Run from a LiveCD and use dpkg with the --root option. Read dpkg(1) for > > more information. > > It turns out /var is also on lvm, so that probably wouldn't work either. > > But I tried sysresccd 1.1.5 and found that it automatically assembled > the raid devices and started lvm! All I needed to do was "vgchange -a > y" to make them available. So I just got everything mounted and used > the chroot method. > > The machine is up and running again. > > Thanks so much for your help! > > Dan > Not a problem; it's reasons like that I advise using the Sysresccd. It tends to work on 99% of setups, and does it what is meant to do: rescue systems. Anyway, glad to see you got it working. Have fun and happy Debian-ing! -- http://pobega.wordpress.com http://identica/pobega
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