can't mount Volume Group

[Tony Alfrey]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> System has 2 SATA drives.  I chainload the second from LILO on the 
> first.  That works perfectly.
> 
> The second drive sdb has Fedora on it.
> sdb1 is a boot partition
> sdb2 is a Logical Volume
> 
> lvdisplay shows the Volume Group and the Logical Volumes,
> 
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --
> 
> linux:~ # lvdisplay /dev/VolGroup00
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>   LV UUID                FSHbaz-XXgb-oaMy-9Jf2-rYnD-K4mg-AN5mXg
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                465.03 GB
>   Current LE             14881
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             next free (default)
>   Read ahead sectors     0
> 
>   --- Logical volume ---
>   LV Name                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
>   VG Name                VolGroup00
>   LV UUID                p93KII-5ZU6-PxoD-d0hs-soKg-7Tbc-R4raVf
>   LV Write Access        read/write
>   LV Status              NOT available
>   LV Size                512.00 MB
>   Current LE             16
>   Segments               1
>   Allocation             next free (default)
>   Read ahead sectors     0
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> The first is Fedora and the second is swap.
> But I can't mount the volumes.
> I'm betting that
> 
> LV Status       NOT available
> 
> might be a clue.
> Does anyone know how to make it available without corrupting it?
> Remember, I can boot it (maybe I am booting the boot partition /dev/sdb1 
> and then somehow from there the volumes on sdb2 are mounted).
> Thanks!
> 


In addition, when I boot Fedora (on sdb) and then run lvdisplay, then LV 
Sataus is Available (I guess that would be obvious).

So any ideas on how to get the volumes Avaible would be appreciated.

Thanks!