From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx14.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.19]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p51EDuPF032279 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:13:56 -0400 Received: from agslnx2.affinitygs.com (ns6.affinitygs.com [69.84.79.108] (may be forged)) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p51EDqVU028703 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:13:54 -0400 Received: from [10.1.10.82] (bisleglnx2.affinitygs.com.10.1.10.in-addr.arpa [10.1.10.2] (may be forged)) by agslnx2.affinitygs.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p51EUnto009485 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:30:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4DE64912.70506@affinitygs.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:13:38 -0500 From: Anthony Nelson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] pvscan is not recognizing physical volumes Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com We have a system that pvscan is not recognizing the physical volumes which is preventing it from cleanly booting. The linux kernel images are on the lvm partitions. The partitions correctly show as LVM partitions when doing an fdisk -l, but the pvscan says "No matching physical volume found". I was suggested to try doing a vgscan -vvvv and the only thing that looked odd was a message saying "No label detected" prior to closing the disk. Some of the steps I have gone through and documentation of this issue can be found on the serverfault question I opened yesterday. You can see that here: http://serverfault.com/questions/275679/rescue-disk-is-unable-to-see-the-lvm-physical-volumes Thanks, Anthony -- Anthony Nelson Affinity Global Solutions 701.223.3565 Ext: 13