[solved] Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-28 Thread Tony Nelson
I'm back now, with an updated system. In order to copy a system to a new disk and Volume Group, one needs, along with a fresh install of Grub, a new initrd with info from the new updated /etc/fstab. It's not necessarily an LVM issue. On 09-07-27 14:14:45, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tony

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tony Nelson wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group. I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one. Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot drive's Volume Group are detected before / is mounted

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tony Nelsontonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group.  I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one.  Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-27 13:08:33, Aldo Foot wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Tony Nelsontonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group.  I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one.  

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-07-27 10:08:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Tony Nelson wrote: I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group. I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one. Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot drive's

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Tony Nelson wrote: On 09-07-27 10:08:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: What do you mean by boot from each drive? Are you talking about selecting what drive to boot from in the BIOS, or selecting what drive is / by setting the root=something in /boot/grub.conf? Either way (with suitable changes

Re: LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-27 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Tony Nelsontonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote: On 09-07-27 13:08:33, Aldo Foot wrote: Not sure what you mean by activate. The LVs are treated like any other partition with its filesystem that it's checked at boot time. There is no switch o turn LVs on and off,

LMV2 boot from another Volume Group?

2009-07-26 Thread Tony Nelson
I have two hard drives I want to boot from, each with its own LVM2 Volume Group. I can boot from the one on the same drive as Grub, but not from the other one. Apparantly, only Logical Volumes from the boot drive's Volume Group are detected before / is mounted (something about activation,