Activate second volume group at boot

[Stuart]

Eric Brunson wrote:
> Stuart Sears wrote:
>> On 03/01/09 23:09, Eric Brunson wrote:
>>> I have an external drive that I've created a second volume group on.
>>>  I've done a bit of poring over the init scripts in my /etc and in
>>> the initrd image, but there doesn't seem to be any facility to
>>> activate anything but VolGroup00 during the boot sequence.
>>
>> what do you mean by 'activate' ?
>>
>> acknowledge the existence of?
>>
>> okay, just add the usb-storage module to your initrd.
>> something like this should do the trick:
>>
>> mkintrd --with="usb-storage" -v -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img \
>> $(uname -r)
> 
> That fixed it, thanks a bunch, Stuart.
> I'll have to do that after every kernel upgrade, though, won't I?

Not if you create /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd, with this line in it:

MODULES="usb-storage"

This is picked up by the mkinitrd script automatically, which is run on 
kernel upgrades (or installations)

Regards,


Stuart
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