The size of the initrd is likely too small to take the /etc/lvmtab.d/ files.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
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> Subject: Bug#184653: lvm10: initrd-lvm image can't activate all vomume groups: ERROR 6
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> When booting with a (slightly hand-modified, see #184646) initrd image created with
> lvmcreate_initrd, lvm can't activate all volume groups. It displays the following, which
> may contain typos, as I wrote it down from the screen:
>
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "raid0vg"
> vgscan -- found inactive volume group "raid1vg"
> vgscan -- ERROR 6 writing volume group backup file /etc/lvmtab.d/raid1vg.tmp in vg_cfgbackup.c [line 271]
> vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "raid1vg"
> vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "raid1vg" from "/etc/lvmtab"
> vgscan -- ERROR 6 writing volume group backup file /etc/lvmtab.d/raid1.tmp in vg_cfgbackup.c [line 271]
> vgscan -- ERROR: unable to do a backup of volume group "raid1"
> vgscan -- ERROR "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "raid1" from "/etc/lvmtab"
>
>
> This leads to kernel panic, as my root fs is on raid1vg. The old lvm10 from woody activated
> "raid1" successfully, but not "raid1vg" with an untempered with image.
>
>
> - -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux magnolia 2.4.20-noevms #1 Don Mär 13 14:01:12 CET 2003 i686
> Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
>
> Versions of packages lvm10 depends on:
> ii debconf 1.2.20 Debian configuration management sy
> ii file 3.37-3.1 Determines file type using "magic"
> ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii lvm-common 1.5.5 The Logical Volume Manager for Lin
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