[ale] grub rescue

[Jim Lynch]

On 02/18/2012 05:19 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Once you make your copy, try making all your unallocated space into a
> single linux partition.  Then you can dd the first few MB off into a file
> (running a RAMDISK rescue environment, of course) and use 'file' to see if
> you got it right.  Were you using LVM?  Then from there you might be able
> to get lucky and find your partition endpoints.
Since you can now with grub2 boot from LVM that might be the answer.  
I'm surprised that grub didn't recognize that.  I'd find a live cd or 
Knopix cd that understands LVM and see if the partition contains LVM 
volumes before I did anything rash.

Jim.