can't mount Volume Group

[Tony Alfrey]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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!
> 


Sorry for answering my post.
And finally I see that maybe I can use

lvm  vgchange -al--available y /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Can someone look at that and tell me if it looks right before I go and 
break this freaking thing?

Thanks