bscott@ntisys.com wrote: > It sounds like the LVM is not up and running properly with the LV >available when the filesystem check is run, causing the fsck to fail, >causing the initscripts to drop you into the emergency "your system is >really hosed" shell at boot. > > Yeah, just trying to figure out why, excatly. > > Instead of a hardlink, try a symlink. I suspect the hardlink is causing >the device node magic in the LVM userland programs to get all borked up. > > > After reading your suggestion I thought I'd give that a shot...what I get is a message telling me /dev/sdz1 is not a valid block device. _______________________________________________ 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