On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 17:01 -0500, Tod wrote: > Tod wrote: > > I made it to the command prompt and typed in lvm vgscan, no volume > > groups are found. fdisk -l sees all my drives/partitions. > > > > What do I need to do to get it to recognize my volume group so I can > > rename it? > > > Sorry, poorly formed question. Let me try again. > > I'm trying to rename my volume group. I have one drive with a non-LVM > boot partition and then the rest of the drive is LVM'ed, I have another > drive on the box - single partition, entirely LVM'ed. > > From all indications I should be able to boot up with the fc6 rescue > cd, do a vgrename, change the /etc/fstab and grub.conf to reflect the > new name and life is good. > > So I booted up with the rescues cd, did not enable the network, skipped > the search for fedora installations, and ended up with a command prompt. > > At this point I should just be able to do a > - lvm vgscan > - lvm vgrename > > I can't get past vgscan, it doesn't find any volume groups. If I try > vgrename --test oldname newname it fails because it still can't find any > volume groups. > > ls /dev shows nothing volume group related. vgscan --mknodes, and > vgmknodes both do nothing. > > This has to be something stupid I'm not doing but I am at a loss. Given > the VolGroup00 naming the fedora applies by default I can't imagine this > hasn't come up a lot yet none of the solutions I have found are > applicable. Can anybody point me in the right direction? > > > Thanks! > 4 questions: A. What's your hardware configuration. (Controller, drives, etc) B. Stupid question - does F6 even recognize your storage; Can you see something in the kernel log? /sys/bus/scsi/devices/? /sys/bus/ide/devices/? (Don't forget that the rescue CD is based on a far older kernel.) C. Have you tried F7/8 rescue CDs? D. What does pvscan return? - Gilboa
