[linux-lvm] 'vgscan' at boot-up

[Luca Berra]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:12:59PM -0800, David S. wrote:
>
>I'm using lvm2-2.00.15 and device-mapper-1.00.17 on a Slackware (x86)
>system, with a 2.6.9 kernel and udev-026.  I've created a volume
>group and a logical volume without any trouble, but the file system
>I built on the volume won't mount at boot-up.  That's apparently
>because the 'vgscan' program run from the system initialization
>script does not find an volume groups.  After the system boots,
>'vgscan' works fine.  I can get the file system mounted by putting
...
>in 'rc.local'.  Does anyone have a idea why 'vgscan' would fail
>in the sytem initialization script, but succeed in 'rc.local'?
>
wild guess,
udev has not yet created the block device file you require,
try putting udevstart in the system initialization script before vgscan

Regards,
L.

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