LVM in rescue mode I've had to deal with LVM in rescue mode a few times lately, which has given me some new insight into this stuff: e2fsck: Boot into rescue mode (in RHEL/Fedora this means putting in CD 1 and typing "linux rescue" at the boot prompt -- but it's essentially any minimal live CD). Rescue mode does not do anything with LVM by defualt: to activiate the volume groups, you need to iss..