[CentOS] RAID + LVM Addition to CentOS 5 Install

Tue Sep 4 15:21:50 UTC 2007
Nick Webb <webbn at acm.org>

On 9/4/07, Nick Webb <webbn at acm.org> wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Shad L. Lords <slords at lordsfam.net> wrote:
> > > This worked fine, but on reboot I get a ton of errors from LVM saying
> > > that volume with id xxxx-xxxx-xxxx... was not found and the system
> > > automatically reboots.  This seems to happen for all volumes, not just
> > > the ones I changed.  This error even happens for a separate volume
> > > group (called 'extended') that is on a separate set of disks and was
> > > existing prior to the CentOS 5 install.
> > >
> > > Any idea on some step I missed?  I know things are still fine on the
> > > disks, as when I boot with the CentOS DVD with the 'linux rescue'
> > > option all RAID & LVM volumes are available for use.  So from this it
> > > seems I need to update some CentOS config file?
> >
> > Did you re-create the initrd after adding the new raid group?  Not 100%
> > about this but my guess would be that the initrd isn't starting md2 and thus
> > can't find the pv on that raid device.
> >
> > -Shad
>
Hi Shad,

That solved it!

Thanks so much for the help.  Awesome group on here, BTW, 4 responses
within a hour or two of my post, and a solution!

Nick