On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:13:13PM +0200, Mark de Ruijter wrote: > 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 ? are you sure that the device nodes for the physical volumes are present? (in case of doubt, try with devfs and mount at boot option ;) just an idea ... best, Herbert > "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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
