On Monday 28 July 2008 18:57:22 Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: > Hi, > I'm not familiar with ubuntu. In SLES one has to enable the boot.lvm script > which runs vgscan and vgchange to detect and enable the PV's, VG's and > their LV's. > > Try manually running vgscan and then vgchange -a y > and see if that helps. > good luck. > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or > otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you > received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to > send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or > its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and > delete the e-mail from your system. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Eduard Nicodei > Sent: Mon 7/28/2008 5:12 AM > To: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: logical volumes not being detected > > Hello, this is my first posting here and I'm sorry if this has already been > discused. All I want to know is what other modules/libraries other than the > device-mapper kernel module, lvm2 and the devmapper library do I need in > order to have my logical volumes detected. > here's my setup: one 160GB sata2 hdd; one 320GB sata2 hdd; a minimal > version of ubuntu (installed from debootstrap) and a custom compiled kernel > version 2.6.26 (I should mention that the kernel doesn't contain all of the > modules - I wanted it to provide only the features I need). I have created > a physical volume, volume group and logical volume from another ubuntu > installation. It is detected while using the live cd, and also if I boot > the minimal ubuntu with another kernel that has a full set of features. > > regards, Eduard > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel sorry, neither vgscan nor vgchange -a -y didn't work. However, after twinking my kernel I found the problem: I had to select the "Create deprecated sysfs files" and the "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" kernel configuration options, (both from "General setup"); now I'm not a dm-developer so this is just a suggestion: does device-mapper use deprecated sysfs files? If so, it should be upgraded, or at least a warning be posted somewhere that dm needs those files. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel