[linux-lvm] LVM fails at bootup

[Andreas Dilger]

On Nov 12, 2001  14:19 -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote:
> I added the vgscan and the vgchange commands to the end of the checkroot.sh
> script (which in Debian is different from the mountfs.sh script). When the
> vgscan runs, it generates about two pages of drive errors:
> 
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hdb: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

Don't know about this - looks like hardware problems.

> followed by two
> 
> modprobe: Can't locate module /dev/vg01
> I get a series of "Can't locate module /dev/vg01/<logical volume> errors.

Maybe you need the following lines in your /etc/modules.conf:

alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
alias char-major-109 lvm-mod

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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