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From: Mark de Ruijter <lvm@ruby.ridersoft.net>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgscan and initrd
Date: Mon Jun 30 09:51:01 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306272113.h5RLDD7E020638@ruby.ridersoft.net> (raw)

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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" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu> 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".
> 
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-06-30  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-30  9:51 Mark de Ruijter [this message]
2003-07-02 22:51 ` [linux-lvm] vgscan and initrd Herbert Poetzl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-27  8:34 Mark
2003-06-27  9:03 ` Mark H. Wood
2003-06-26  9:30 lvm
2003-06-26 12:02 ` Mark H. Wood

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