Mathias Friman writes: > I have a volume group named "vg_data" and three lv's named "lv_home", > "lv_usr" and "lv_var" respectively, each with a ext3 filesystem. > > I try to mount the lv's in fstab: > /dev/vg_data/lv_home /home ext3 defaults 0 0 > > I get as far as > Setting up LVM Volume Groups... > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "vg_data" using metadata type lvm2 > /dev/vg_data: opendir failed: no such file or directory > /dev/vg_data: opendir failed: no such file or directory > /dev/vg_data: opendir failed: no such file or directory > > and at the end of the boot, none of the volumes are being mounted. > > I can manually run the lvm-script and mount the volumes from the command > line. > > "# vgchange -a y" says > 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_data" now active > > "lsmod" shows that dm_mod is loaded. > and the devices mapped in /dev/vg_data is soft links > lv_home -> /dev/mapper/vg_data-lv_home .. etc.
Hm, perhaps as a workaround right before the lvm startup script you simply add another script (with FAI) containing the vgchange line mentioned above? Andreas