They support it, they just assume it's compiled in. For LVM2, I had to add a modprobe dm-mod to the previous line, and comment out the if/fi lines. On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:32:59AM -0500, Michael K Lambert wrote: > > Hello, all. > > Although RH does not support LVM in 7.2, I've been making use of it by > compiling my own kernel. The LVM patches will not patch clean on my RH 390 > systems, so we are stuck at version .9.1, but it does work. Just yesterday > I built a new kernel and compiled LVM as a module for the first time. After > building the kernel, I rebooted and was surpirsed to see that LVM did not > initialize. After boot, I could run vgscan manually and lvm would become > active, but not during boot up. > > After looking into rc.sysinit, I found that for vgscan to run, three > conditions needed to be met.../sbin/vgscan had to exist, /etc/lvmtab must > exist, and /proc/lvm must exist. Unfortunately, when lvm is modularized, > the /proc entry is created whenever the module is loaded, not permanently. > This causes the rc.sysinit test to fail and LVM is not initialized. Of > course, it is simple to work around this. I changed rc.sysinit to test for > /proc/lvm OR the existence of the lvm-mod, and that seemed to work fine. > This is just an FYI so that others in similar circumstances can avoid any > confusion. > > Michael Lambert > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- <dilinger> people fear what they don't understand <zinx> that is not true <zinx> most people fear what they don't understand, and the rest get killed by those people _______________________________________________ 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
