Fastest way to reset slave server

[Arun Srinivasan]

*Newbie alert*

Engine : myISAM

I have Redhat lvm backups nightly that is taken after read-locking the mysql tables. The slave is kaput and I've tried various ways to get the old logs into master and start slave. All I'm getting is

Got fatal error 1236 from master when reading data from binary log: 'Could not find first log file name in binary log index file'

1. I don't know how to make the slave 'see' that the old files were restored from file system backup and ask it to replay them.

2. If '1' isn't possible, I'm planning to refresh slave. All the articles I see asks me to use mysqldump and replay the files into slave before resetting the master log and log_pos.

Now since I have nightly lvm backups, I do have the files for every table. Is it possible for me to just put back the files into the slave mysql data folder and start slave after chaning the master_log_file and master_log_pos?

If it's not possible, what is the fastest way to get the slave in sync with master, especally when facing the 1236 error.