Description of problem: I'm trying to extend the root volume group (rootvg) to cover two md devices: # vgdisplay rootvg --verbose Using volume group(s) on command line Finding volume group "rootvg" --- Volume group --- VG Name rootvg System ID localhost.localdomain1084800472 Format lvm1 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 256 Cur LV 3 Open LV 3 Max PV 256 Cur PV 2 Act PV 2 VG Size 230.83 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 59092 Alloc PE / Size 1498 / 5.85 GB Free PE / Size 57594 / 224.98 GB VG UUID mPxmmr-rjHq-zBc4-YbLb-3w1J-qYXf-8fFu8M .... --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/md0 PV UUID SK5J2n-f09o-JHeQ-j8AU-l248-y5ME-r6QTrb PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 1499 / 1 PV Name /dev/md2 PV UUID VE2aar-OCXY-3LO1-Mnt0-1MHx-Xmwn-Jgd4hK PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 57593 / 57593 But the init script generated by mkinitrd will only start /dev/md0. Activating the volume group then fails because only one of two physical volumes is available. To make matters worse though, no debugging info (output from lvm) is displayed at boot. The last message is simply from starting /dev/md0: raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md0: unknown partition table Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-6.0.87-1.fc11.i586
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 506189 ***