Hi, Now, that I have a backup, I tried the 'pvcreate' command. As you probably would have expected, it refused to do anything, because it couldn't find sdc. Am 17.06.2009 um 18:04 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
In <85F9AC9E-0DB0-4B13-96F1-091BF80E617C@econophone.ch>, Philip Mötteli wrote:
Am 16.06.2009 um 20:31 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
In
, Philip Mötteli wrote: Quoting "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
: In Monday 15 June 2009, you wrote: When you boot the system normally, which device is the drive that LVM can't find?
sdc
If it is showing up as a device, you've got the right modules loaded.
No, it is not showing up in '/dev'.
Then you don't know it will show up as sdc. It might, but those names are assigned dynamically, so don't assume it will be sdc.
Here are the devices in '/dev': blog console device-mapper disk fb0 fd fd0 fd0u[360-1920] full hpet input kmem kmsg mapper mem null oldmem port psaux ptmx pts pty[q0-sf] random rtc sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sdb sdb1 snapshot stderr stdin stdout tty tty[0-sf] urandom usbdev[1.1_ep00-5.1_ep81] vcs vcsa vcsa1 zero All the other disks and partitions are showing up as usual. Also, these disks should use the same drivers to be accessible. Why doesn't it just not find this single disk? Perhaps, because it's a whole disk lvm?
How was fdisk able to see /dev/sdc?
Well, there's no fdisk in the fall-back shell of the system. So I call fdisk in the RescueCD. I don't know, how fdisk works, but at least the device nodes are already there.
Or was that /dev/sdc not actually the correct device?
GParted shows all the devices, including sdc. All show up in '/proc/ partitions' (so have a device node), except 'sdc'. It can't be a broken hard-drive, because the hard-drive is working under the RescueCD. I was even able to make a backup of all the data from there. So it must be something with the configuration on the system disk. What is used, to scan the SCSI bus during boot up? Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org