Recover non-booting Linux

Linux boot sequence includes many stages. Following the BIOS initialisation, the boot loader is being called (GRUB or GRUB-EFI), then GRUB does its magic, and then it loads the kernel and the init RAM FS (initramfs or initrd) to memory. Following that, the kernel is jumped to, and a set of scripts are called from…

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Linux LVM explained

You can find bazillion sites explaining Linux LVM, however, I am preparing for my next article, about partition resize for the advanced user, and LVM deep understanding is required, so I have decided to explain some of the internals of LVM for the advanced user. This explains the how it is built more than the…