LVM vgscan fails at boot time

From: Kevin McCarthy (mccarthyk_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/19/05 

Date: 19 Aug 2005 11:47:19 -0700

I have a fresh install of SuSE 9.3 I picked up at Linuxworld, and I
thought I'd give LVM a whirl. YaST worked great for setting up the
volume group and everything, but when I reboot, vgscan fails, saying
"no volume groups found", and I get dumped into the little "fsck
failed, please fix stuff and ctrl-d to reboot" screen. So I comment
out the entry in /etc/fstab and ctrl-d to reboot, and it boots ok, but
no lvm volume.

But here's the kicker: After the system has booted, I can run vgscan
and then vgchange -a y, and the volume group is found and I can mount
it and everything. So what is happening at boot time in
/etc/init.d/boot.lvm that does not work?

The only other instance of this problem I have been able to locate is
at http://tinyurl.com/e2ozg (link to google groups article)

Thanks,

Kevin McCarthy

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