Disable The Boot.lvm And Boot.md Services; Enable The Boot.evms Service; Edit The /Etc/Fstab File - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 7-2007 Administration Manual

2.2.1 Disable the boot.lvm and boot.md Services

You need to disable boot.lvm (handles devices for Linux Volume Manager) and boot.md
(handles multiple devices in software RAIDs) so they do not run at boot time. In the future, you
want boot.evms to run at boot time instead.
1 In YaST, click System > Runlevel Editor > Expert Mode.
2 Select boot.lvm.
3 Click Set/Reset > Disable the Service.
4 Select boot.md.
5 Click Set/Reset > Disable the Service.
6 Click Finish, then click Yes.
The changes do not take effect until the server is restarted. Do not restart at this time.
7 Continue with Section 2.2.2, "Enable the boot.evms Service," on page

2.2.2 Enable the boot.evms Service

You need to enable the boot.evms service so that it boots devices when you restart the server.
1 In YaST, click System > Runlevel Editor > Expert Mode.
2 Select boot.evms.
3 Click Set/Reset > Enable the Service.
The B runlevel option is automatically selected.
4 Click Finish, then click Yes.
The changes do not take affect until the server is restarted. Do not restart at this time.
NOTE: Effective in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, the /dev directory is on tmpfs and the
device nodes are automatically re-created on boot. It is no longer necessary to modify the /
etc/init.d/boot.evms script to delete the device nodes on system restart as was
required for previous versions of SUSE Linux.
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"Edit the /etc/fstab File" on page

2.2.3 Edit the /etc/fstab File

When you boot the system, the kernel reads the /etc/fstab file to identify which file systems
should be mounted and then mounts them. This file contains a table of file system information about
the /boot, swap, and root (/) partitions plus other partitions and file systems you want to mount.
You must edit the /etc/fstab file to modify the mount location of these three partitions so they
are mounted under the /dev/evms directory. For example, change /dev/sda1 to /dev/evms/
sda1.
Although the /boot partition is not managed by EVMS, the boot.evms script forces EVMS to
scan all the partitions at boot time, including the /boot partition, and it activates /boot under the
/dev/evms directory. Therefore, this makes /boot a partition that is discovered by EVMS at
startup, and requires that the device's path be listed under /dev/evms in the fstab file so it can
be found when booting with boot.evms.
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