Following this discussion: ==================================================== William Murray wrote: From: William Murray <W J Murray rl ac uk> To: fedora-list Subject: Can LVM1 read an LVM2 volume? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:37:39 +0100 Hello all, I would like to read my FC5 LVM disks, duak booted with an old (~RHEL3) system. If I try vgscan or pvscan on the RHEL 3 machine there is nothing visible. Should I (can I ) remove the lvm layer from FC5? Or would it be easier to graft lvm2 into RHEL 3? You might try using the trick I used to workaround #186395 in reverse: Copy /sbin/lvm.static from your FC5 box to somewhere on the RHEL3 partition (don't overwrite the /sbin/lvm.static from RHEL3 though). Let's say you put it in /root/lvm.static Then, in RHEL3, try: /root/lvm.static vgscan If that seems to work, try: /root/lvm.static vgchange -ay Paul. =================================================== unfortunately this does not work. I get a 'FATAL: kernel is too old' error. So I guess I should de-lvm my disk? Is this possible? Bill