From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iA7GrBr11184 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:53:11 -0500 Received: from percy.comedia.it (percy.comedia.it [212.97.59.71]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA7Gr9ZW022845 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:53:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:52:58 +0100 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 'vgscan' at boot-up Message-ID: <20041107165258.GG23551@percy.comedia.it> References: <20041106011259.GB11112@nile.gs.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041106011259.GB11112@nile.gs.washington.edu> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:12:59PM -0800, David S. wrote: > >I'm using lvm2-2.00.15 and device-mapper-1.00.17 on a Slackware (x86) >system, with a 2.6.9 kernel and udev-026. I've created a volume >group and a logical volume without any trouble, but the file system >I built on the volume won't mount at boot-up. That's apparently >because the 'vgscan' program run from the system initialization >script does not find an volume groups. After the system boots, >'vgscan' works fine. I can get the file system mounted by putting ... >in 'rc.local'. Does anyone have a idea why 'vgscan' would fail >in the sytem initialization script, but succeed in 'rc.local'? > wild guess, udev has not yet created the block device file you require, try putting udevstart in the system initialization script before vgscan Regards, L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \