From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200306272113.h5RLDD7E020638@ruby.ridersoft.net> From: Mark de Ruijter Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan and initrd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bound1056748393" Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jun 30 09:51:01 2003 List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --bound1056748393 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ? "Mark H. Wood" 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/ --bound1056748393--