From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; H010818; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The condition check in rc.sysinit for LVM if [ -e /proc/lvm -a -x /sbin/vgchange -a -f /etc/lvmtab ]; then because at this point /proc/lvm fails the existance check. Removing this check loads the volume groups properly Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a vg, lv, then put a file system on it. 2. Enter the file system into /etc/fstab 3. Reboot 4. Boot fails and drops to single user mode because the disk is unavailable. Actual Results: Boot fails to complete, leaves machine in single user mode because mount -a fails. (Because LVM does not load, the volume in /etc/fstab is not available) Expected Results: Boot to normal runlevel Additional info: I believe that once in runlevel 1 (Single User Mode), the /proc/lvm directory does exist, which makes troubleshooting the problem annoying. Since this could cause a system to fail to boot, I'm classifying it as a "High" bug, though I believe LVM is officially "not supported" the fact that the stock rc.sysinit attempts to load it merits consideration.
It's not a bug, you need to have LVM in your initrd for the autostart to work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77539 ***