Activate second volume group at boot

[Eric Brunson]

Stuart wrote:
> 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,

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for in the man page.