On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, toby wrote: > Markku Kolkka wrote: > > > > Viestissä Perjantai 29. Marraskuuta 2002 11:12, Keith Morse kirjoitti: > > > I'm having a dickens of a time trying to figure > > > out where LVM gets initialized at in the startup scripts. > > > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: > > > > # LVM initialization > > if [ -e /proc/lvm -a -x /sbin/vgchange -a -f /etc/lvmtab ]; then > > action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:" /sbin/vgscan && \ > > /sbin/vgchange -a y > > fi > > Thanks Marraskuuta, I know I found that once last night, but couldn't again. 1 a.m. is never the zenith of my cognitive skills. > > It's recommended you don't run vgscan at boot time - it wipes out your > configuration that's stored in files in /etc & replaces then with what > it find on the LVM disks. Which is ok if everything else is ok too. But > if your LVM system has a problem & you reboot, you've just dug yourself > a bigger hole by destroying the very data you need to rebuild/recover > the LVM. Take it out of /etc/rc.sysinit ( if psyche still has it in > there ) and have it just try to activate LVM to its last state: > > > action $"Setting up Logical Volume Management:"/sbin/vgchange -a y > Sound reasonable. I'll take a look. > > > But I don't even think that's the orginal problem. You probably need to > recreate your initrd image with the LVM module included: > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-17.7.x.img 2.4.18-17.7.x --with=lvm-mod Aah, this makes sense. LVM comes with a lvcreate_initrd which spewed forth with many errors. That certainly didn't seem like the right answer. > > I'm working off enigma here, so don't take my examples literally. > > > This info is on the lvm list at sistina.com. Doh! I did say something about 1am not being prime thinking time, right? Much appreciated. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
