Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello again Folks, > > So.. I'm getting closer to fixing this messed up machine. > > Where things stand: > > I have root defined as an LVM2 LV, that should use /dev/md2 as it's PV. > /dev/md2 in turn is a RAID1 array built from /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 and > /dev/sdc3 > > Instead, LVM is reporting: "Found duplicate PV > 2ppSS2q0kO3t0tuf8t6S19qY3ypWBOxF: using /dev/sdb3 not /dev/sda3" > and the /dev/md2 is reporting itself as inactive (cat /proc/mdstat) > and active,degraded (mdadm --detail) So you didn't tell lvm.conf to ignore raid component devices or the detection fails. Worst case exclude sd?3 manualy. After that a reboot should fix it. MfG Goswin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html