I tried to do that just now. Sadly, it didn't work. Still vgscan doesn't see any volume group at all. So once again, kernel panic strikes. This is so frustrating :) I mean, the livecd things boot just fine, but it absolutly refuses to boot to that lvm. Any more suggestions ? "Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu> wrote .. > Your follow-up makes it sound as though you have a different problem from > mine, but I can answer your question about mounting tmpfs over /etc: > > mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /etc > > You wind up with an empty /etc, but at that point there should be no > problem. vgscan just wants some place to store a metadata backup which > you are going to throw away, and after pivot-root runs you'll have a > different /etc anyway. If the Gentoo startup scripts are like Red Hat's, > they'll do a second LVM metadata backup into the "real" /etc later. > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu > MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user". > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
