Disable The Boot.lvm And Boot.md Services; Enable The Boot.evms Service - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - STORAGE ADMINISTRATION GUIDE FOR EVMS Administration Manual

If you do not configure the device to use EVMS, you must manage the device and all of its volumes
with its current volume manager (the default is LVM), and free space on the device cannot be used
for volumes you want to create using EVMS. Beginning with the Linux 2.6 kernel, any given device
cannot be managed by multiple volume managers. However, you can have different volume
managers for different devices.
The following procedures assume that you installed Linux with three partitions on a single SCSI
device named sda:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda3
IMPORTANT: Make sure to modify the following procedures as necessary for your specific setup.

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.
7 Continue with

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.
22 SLES 10 Storage Administration Guide for EVMS
reiserfs /boot
swap swap
reiserfs /
Section 2.2.1, "Disable the boot.lvm and boot.md Services," on page 22
Section 2.2.2, "Enable the boot.evms Service," on page 22
Section 2.2.3, "Edit the /etc/fstab File," on page 23
Section 2.2.4, "Edit the Boot Loader File," on page 24
Section 2.2.5, "Force the RAM Disk to Recognize the Root Partition," on page 25
Section 2.2.6, "Reboot the Server," on page 26
Section 2.2.7, "Verify that EVMS Manages the Boot, Swap, and Root Partitions," on page 26
The changes do not take affect until the server is restarted. Do not reboot at this time.
Section 2.2.2, "Enable the boot.evms Service," on page
The B runlevel option is automatically selected.
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