Unable to boot with LVM mount on USB drive (Fedora 10)

[Bruce Thompson]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Bruce Thompson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I haven't seen this reported anywhere else and it's kind of driving  
>> me
>> nuts.
>>
>> I've got an LVM volume group that extends across two internal  
>> drives and
>> one external USB drive. Prior to Fedora 10, the volume group  
>> initializes
>> fine during boot and the filesystems listed in /etc/fstab mount  
>> fine. As
>> of Fedora 10, the initialization of the volume group fails apparently
>> because the USB drive is not yet registered when LVM attempts to  
>> bring
>> up the volume group.
>>
>> I have a workaround, namely the following in rc.local:
>>
>> vgchange -ay Backups
>> mount -o defaults,noatime /dev/Backups/Backup /backup
>> mount -o defaults,noatime /dev/Backups/Staging /staging
>>
>> Obviously this is non-optimal since it bypasses the automatic fsck  
>> step.
>>
> I am not sure, but I suspect that you can fix this by rebuilding
> your initrd, including the usb_storage module this time.
>
> Mikkel

Just got home to try it out, that did the trick nicely.

BTW for those that may have influence, would it be unreasonable to  
expect the default initrd to include usb-storage?

Thanks much!
Bruce.