http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525454 Summary: LVM2 inactive after reboot Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: diego.ercolani@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; it; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060200 SUSE/3.0.11-0.1.1 Firefox/3.0.11 I noticed that if you create manually a LVM2 structure, (with pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate) whe you reboot the OpenSuSE box, volume groups are inactive and you have to activate via "vgchange -ay" This behaviour is VERY annoying as init script mount procedure complaints about non existance of partition and drops to init shell.... The workaround is to comment out lvm2 partitions in fstab (as for me LVM are only service partitions and can be not mounted during startup), reboot, activate VGs by hand and then mount them manually. I found that in mkinitrd there is a flag called "feature" to enable in initrd kernels, the feature is lvm2 I found also there is sysconfig/lvm where you can define in LVM_VGS_ACTIVATED_ON_BOOT the group you want to activate during startup. I found also some OpenSuse 11.1 machines where there isn't any declaration of boot lvm group activation and in these machines LVM2 is correctly activated during startup. Please provide us a sort of WIKI or HOWTO, to correctly handle the "LVM2 boot problem" Thank you for your support Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.