What kernel are you using? Does it have device mapper enabled? Have you tried vgcfgrestore ? IIRC On LVM1, that's vgcfgrestore -n <physical volume> , on LVM2 it's vgcfgrestore <volume group name> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:31:19PM +0200, Hans T?rnquist wrote: > I have change my system from slackware to gentoo and I can't get my lvm to work. > > When I run vgscan I get: > > # vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "ftp_vg" from physical volume(s) > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group > > and pvscan: > > # pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ataraid/disc0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "ftp_vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "ftp_vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target1/lun0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "ftp_vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "ftp_vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc" is associated to unknown VG "ftp_vg" (run vgscan) > pvscan -- total: 5 [496.34 GB] / in use: 5 [496.34 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > And now to my problem. > when I used slackware all my pv's was located by pvscan at /dev/hdb and forward but now at /dev/ide/host?/bus?/lun0/disc. > > So if anybody got a clue how to fix it, pleace tell me. > > /Hans T?rnquist -- Matthew J Toseland - toad@amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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