  [linux-lvm] boot sequence of lvm and dm_multipath   I am
trying to run dm_multipath (mpio) against an EMC Clariion array
on  a SuSE SLES) system. According to  this should work, and it
does to a certain degree, but I have problem  with lvm
integration on a system which has an lvm boot disk   This  is
the environment:  hges3302:~ # rpm -q multipath-tools hges3302:~
# uname -a Linux hges3302 2.6.5-7.201-bigsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 25
06:20:45 UTC 2005  i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux hges3302:~ # cat
/etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)  The
server is a Fujitsu Siemens Primergy with an internal raid
controller and two Emulex lp9802 HBAs; driver is lpfc 8.0.16.
Everything works fine if I start SuSE's
/etc/init.d/boot.multipath  (which simply loads dm-multiptah)
and /etc/init.d/multipathd manually,  having booted the server
without multipath. Once starting  boot.multipath and multipathd
manually, I can pvscan the Clariion,  vgchange -ay the
volumegroups etc.; and the path failover works fine.  However