Happened to me in December, see below. Richard Booth writes:

My system keeps checking for LVM on booting, but I have not set this up and it takes a few seconds for the system to realise and carry on booting.

I am using SuSE 6.3 Pentium Kernel, how do you disable this check? Do I have to recompile the Kernel without LVM?

Thanks Rich

I managed to solve the problem myself. When entering the menu for LVM, even if you don't define any logical volumes, one file and a directory is created in /etc: lvmtab and lvmtab.d/. This SLOWS the boot VERY much, since the boot scripts still are trying to set up Logical Volumes!! Removing lvmtab and lvmtab.d restored everything back to normal again! I did not find anything documented about this, either in the manual or in the help files!! It was found by finding LVM entries in the boot, halt and reboot scripts in /sbin/init.d!! Svante Signell writes:

Hi,

I accidentally enabled the LVM volume groups in Yast when upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3. Now the boot takes a very long time going through vgascan, vgachange etc. I have not found anything about this in the manual!! What is it? How to disable it, Yast does not seem to have an entry to disable, only enable!?

svante.signell@telia.com

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