[NTLUG:Discuss] Borked LVM volume -- can anyone help?

[Damien Falgoust]

Hello all.

I'm pretty new at Linux and have been using it as a home file server
(Suse) for about a year.  Today it stopped recognizing the LVM volume,
and when I rebooted it wouldn't start up.  (Well, it does, but it
drops to a command line and demands the root password).

FTR, the LVM volumes do NOT hold system files...that is on a separate
HDD.  The LVM volume spans two 500GB SATA drives.

Now I've lost access to nearly 800GB of data.  I've Googled on how to
recover an LVM volume but I just can't make heads or tails of it.  I
really feel like I'm in over my head on this one.

Are there any NTLUG folks out there who could come take a look,
perhaps for a small fee?  I'm really at my wit's end here.

-- 
Damien Falgoust