From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <54743766.7020502@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:01:42 +0100 From: Peter Rajnoha MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM VG is not activated during system boot 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" To: megabrutal@gmail.com Cc: LVM general discussion and development On 11/24/2014 11:27 PM, MegaBrutal wrote: > Hi all, > > I use Ubuntu, and several weeks ago I asked a question about LVM here: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/542656/lvm-vg-is-not-activated-during-system-boot > > Unfortunately, I didn't receive any answers. > > I don't know if my problem is distro-specific or not, but I try to ask > here too. > > I have 2 VGs on my system, and for some reason, only one of them gets > activated during the initrd boot sequence, which doesn't have my root > LV, so my boot sequence halts with an initrd prompt. I already specified > in lvm.conf that I wish both my VGs to be auto-activated with > auto_activation_volume_list, but it has no effect. > > Could anyone please advise what might be the problem? Hi! What's the exact lvm2 version used (lvm --version)? Is lvmetad enabled in your setup? (global/use_lvmetad=1 setting in lvm.conf and lvmetad daemon running?) Does it activate when you run vgchange -aay vmdata-vg vmhost-vg directly on the busybox cmd line? -- Peter