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Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM fails at bootup
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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@btconnect.com>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 07:09:57PM -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 12, 2001  14:19 -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote:
> > > I added the vgscan and the vgchange commands to the end of the checkroot.sh
> > > script (which in Debian is different from the mountfs.sh script). When the
> > > vgscan runs, it generates about two pages of drive errors:
> > >
> > > hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > hdb: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

I've also seen this error when the kernel mistakenly thought there was
a partition on an IDE disk that I was using as a PV.  The vgscan command
then trys to look at this bogus partition and causes all these errors.

- Joe