Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

[jam <jam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks for replying so quickly, Jake.
>
> After posting, I kept looking. I found a document on the web called
> "Accessing a Fedora Logical Volume from Ubuntu".
>
> You were right about the need to install software. I did.
>
> The document next told me to load the dm-mod module. I did.
>
> It next told me to run vgscan. I did.
>
> I was told that all physical volumes for the volume group VolGroup00
> couldn't be found. That confirms your point about needing both disks
> connected.
>
> I think I might get a second gadget and see what happens when both
> physical volumes comprising the logical volume group are connected.
>
> I think that's my best shot, because I haven't got a clue about how I
> might get the CPU fan on computer A going again. If I knew that, I would
> also have known enough not to accept the default installation in Fedora
> 9, in so far as it used LVM!!

Unless you are lucky AND have an older mobo  ie tiny heatsink and fan, the 
dead fan machine is irretrievably dead, mobo and cpu.

James