Please help! Lost my LVM VG...

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Andrew Junev wrote:
>> Thursday, February 12, 2009, 9:42:38 PM, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Running the command: vgchange -ay VolTerabytes00 Should
>>> activate the VG, assuming that all PVs are present (and any 
>>> needed modules have been loaded).
>>>> I tried running lvm and it says "Locking type 1
>>>> initialisation failed" no matter what command I enter...
>>> Check that the file system providing /var has been mounted and
>>> is writable. Assuming it's part of / you probably just need to
>>> run: mount -n -oremount,rw /
>> Ah, that worked! Thank you!
>> 
>> What shall I do to automatically activate this VG during boot?
>> 
> If I understand the VG commands correctly, you just did.

I think the OP wants his VG to activate without the need for him to
give the root password at each boot and mess around running commands
by hand :)

Bryn.