Centos 6.8 failed reboot dedicated server

Question

Ok so I bought/rent a dedicated server from nocix with Centos 6.8 installed, also came with 2 hard drives sda - 128GB SSD & sdb - 2TB HDD and I think I made a mistake by partitioning the second drive /dev/sdb and then reboot but lost the ability to connect via SSH, so I contacted nocix and they said I had to reload with the SystemRescueCd.

So I did that and have been reading/following the steps outlined here: https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Sysresccd-Partitioning-EN-Repairing-a-damaged-Grub

See below error messages I got when I ran grub-install /dev/sda

df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.

See my partitions below. I've got 2 drives sda and sdb.

[=====DEVICE=====] [==FILESYS==] [======LABEL======] [====SIZE====] [MAJ] [MIN]
[loop0           ] [squashfs   ] [<unknown>        ] [   275.14 MB] [  7] [  0]
[sda1            ] [ext2       ] [<unknown>        ] [   250.00 MB] [  8] [  1]
[sda2            ] [LVM2_member] [<unknown>        ] [   119.00 GB] [  8] [  2]
[sdb1            ] [ext3       ] [/userdata        ] [     1.82 TB] [  8] [ 17]
[dm-0            ] [ext4       ] [<unknown>        ] [   110.25 GB] [253] [  0]
[dm-1            ] [ext4       ] [<unknown>        ] [     1.00 GB] [253] [  1]
[dm-2            ] [swap       ] [<unknown>        ] [     7.72 GB] [253] [  2]

I did see there is another guide about restoring on LVM and then noticed I have an LVM drive.. I am very new to this so I'm not sure what to do.. It's also quite urgent as the websites this server is hosting are down because of I can't get it back online.

EDIT: Output of vgscan

WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it!
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "vg" using metadata type lvm2

And output of lvscan

  WARNING: lvmetad is running but disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it!
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/root' [110.25 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/tmp' [1.00 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/vg/swap' [7.72 GiB] inherit

Please add the output of `vgscan` and `lvscan` to your question. — Sven, Jan 10 '17 at 15:40
Forget the rescue CD, just boot normally and login at the (remote) console. Or, at least, look at the remote console to find out if it's not booting and why. — Michael Hampton, Jan 10 '17 at 18:32
I just googled it, do you mean physical access to the server? Because its 5000 miles from me, this is a hosted dedicated server and I only have ssh access with putty — Shane Buckley, Jan 10 '17 at 18:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '17 at 13:24

I somehow managed to figure it out!

When I first tried reinstalling grub I thought that /root was on a partition called /dev/loop0 and was mounting that.

Then I learned that my system is using LVM and then mounted /dev/vg/root to do the reinstall and it worked! Server rebooted as if nothing happened! It was down for more than 24 hours..

Centos 6.8 failed reboot dedicated server

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