On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Richard van den Berg wrote: > When booting from cdrom (systemrescuecd) md2 failed to come up, so vg00 > did not come up. I then manually brought up md2 and split the vg, and > added sda3 in the mix: When md devices haven't come up, it has been one of the following: 1) I forgot to make the partition type fd - RAID autodetect 2) The raid1 (or other) driver was not in initrd. Makeinitrd does not always add it when it needs to. (Wants to see /etc/mdadm.conf or /etc/raidtab.) -- Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/