[rhn-users] lvm2 does not activate a volume group at boot time

[Jonathan Smith]

On 04/21/2011 11:10 AM, Rogelio Bazan wrote:
> hi All,
>
> I have rhel4.7 with lvm2 lvm2-2.02.42-9.el4.
>
> At boot time, when trying to mount the file systems, it can't find the
> devices/lv's which are on a different volume group.
>
> I have 2 VG's one for the OS file systems vgroot and other for
> Applications File systems vgapps.
>
> Those lv's which are on vgapps, cannot be mounted because the vgapps is
> not being activated at boot time.
>
> Once OS is up, i can do vgchange -ay vgapps and mount -a.

Check/rebuild your initrd.

	smithj