LVM is "inactive" on first reboot after installation

[David Magda]

On Tue, June 12, 2012 13:17, David Magda wrote:
> On Tue, June 12, 2012 11:15, n43w79 wrote:
>>> I'm trying to set up LVM with FAI 3.4.7 on Debian 6. The various
>>> partitions are created, and things install fine, but on reboot all the
>>> volume groups except the the one that has the root file system ("/")
>>> are
>>> 'inactive'.
>>>
>> Please try:
>> -   disk_config cciss/c0d0 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid
>> +   disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos fstabkey:uuid
>> ....
>> -   vg              vgsys   cciss/c0d0p2
>> +   vg              vgsys   disk1
>
> "disk1" didn't work with the "vg" line; the correct value is "disk1.2".
>
> Regardless, same result:
>
> # lvscan
>   inactive          '/dev/vgsys/var' [43.16 GiB] inherit
>   inactive          '/dev/vgsys/swap' [8.00 GiB] inherit
>   ACTIVE            '/dev/vgsys/root' [8.00 GiB] inherit
>   inactive          '/dev/vgsys/tmp' [8.00 GiB] inherit
[...]

This may be related to a known bug that's about two years old now:

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568838