On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood <robin.atw...@attglobal.net> wrote: > Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a laptop. > It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. However I am > having trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I installed the LVM > service unit from the Gentoo Wiki but it never completes, timing-out on a > job that mounts /var. The VG is actually created by an initramfs and when > systemd dumps you out to the emergency shell you can use lvs to see the > volumes, /dev/mapper has all the correct devices and "dmsetup ls" shows the > LVs. In fact, everything appears as it should, the partitions just don't get > mounted. I circumvented this by putting "mount -a" in the lvm.service unit, > which then completes and the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK > but it is a bit of a kludge. One thing I notice is: > > > > # udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all > > syspath not found > > > > Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas?
How did you create your initramfs? Have you tried dracut, with DRACUT_MODULES="lvm"? Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
