arjanv/2.5 device-mapper lvm2

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:19, Joe Orton wrote:
> I tried this on my FC1 system with a lvm rootfs, challenges were:
> 
> 1. lvm2 conflicts with lvm; I gave up and copy and pasted the stuff
> into the initrd to get a kernel which booted into rc.sysinit

Yeah, I forgot about this...  Need to decide what I want to do there. 
Two sets of identically named man pages for different commands is
annoying :/

> 2. rc.sysinit fails in fsck unable to find the device:
> 
> fsck.ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/mainvg/rootfs
> Possibly non-existent or swap device?
> 
> I wasn't sure how to fix that (initscripts-4.73).

Surely initscripts-7.43 ;-)  Try creating an /etc/lvm directory and then
see if things work

Cheers,

Jeremy