Jason, can you access /dev/sdb while running the below part of your startup script? IOW: is the Adaptec driver present then and does it work properly? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:53:02AM -0400, Jason A. Fager wrote: > I have been attempting to get LVM set up on a freshly-installed > Slackware 8.0 system (custom 2.4.18 monolithic kernel, LVM 1.0.3, > no kernel patches). It works fine in multi-user mode, it works > fine in single-user mode, however I set up the single-user init > script like this: > > (/ is mounted read only at this point) > mount -o remount,rw / > vgscan > vgchange -a y > mount -o remount,ro / > (stock Slackware fsck and mount bits) > > The only volume group I have contains one physical volume > (/dev/sdb, on an Adaptec 7xxx controller). For some reason, > vgscan doesn't pick up the volume group. The exit code is 0, > and looking at the debug output it hits /dev/sdb and spits out > the same messages as when it hits all the other devices. > > As an experiment I put a call to sulogin before the vgscan and > tried running it by hand; same thing happened. I tried running > pvcreate (on the whole disk, and after creating an LVM partition > /dev/sdb1) and it failed with error code 7. > > As another experiment, I tried setting up a loopback filesystem > on a file in the root directory. That worked perfectly; vgscan > picked it up, vgchange activated it, and the rest of the init > script ran fsck and mounted it. Other than setting up the > loopback file the only thing I did was add a call to losetup > before the vgscan. > > Not sure if this is a problem with the kernel (i.e. SCSI driver) > or a problem with LVM, or some boneheaded thing I'm doing wrong. > Any advice you can give would be appreciated -- let me know if > I can provide more information. > > thanks, > jafager > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
