[linux-lvm] vgscan and initrd

[Mark de Ruijter]

I tried to do that just now. 
Sadly, it didn't work. Still vgscan doesn't see any volume group at all. So once again, kernel panic strikes.

This is so frustrating :) I mean, the livecd things boot just fine, but it absolutly refuses to boot to that lvm.

Any more suggestions ?

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood at IUPUI.Edu> wrote ..
> Your follow-up makes it sound as though you have a different problem from
> mine, but I can answer your question about mounting tmpfs over /etc:
> 
>   mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /etc
> 
> You wind up with an empty /etc, but at that point there should be no
> problem.  vgscan just wants some place to store a metadata backup which
> you are going to throw away, and after pivot-root runs you'll have a
> different /etc anyway.  If the Gentoo startup scripts are like Red Hat's,
> they'll do a second LVM metadata backup into the "real" /etc later.
> 
> -- 
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
> MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".
> 
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