Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's highly unlikely you lost data, as the upgrade would not have
> changed the on-disk metadata. If all else fails, you could boot off an
> LVM-enabled LiveCD and you'll find all your volumes present. But first
> we need to find out what's going on (my machine uses baselayout-2 and
> openrc & my lvm volumes were unaffected.
>
> What output do you get from
> pvscan
> vgscan
> lvscan
> vgchange -a y
>
> and what's in the various logs regarding lvm startup?
>
>  
Ok,

pvscan says:
  No Matching physical volumes found

vgscan says:
  Reading all physical volumes....This make take a while
  No volume groups found

lvscan says:
  No volume groups found

vgchange -a y says:
  No volume groups found.

There's not much in the way of logs, seeing as syslog can't start (/var
partition is on LVM too). running dmesg doesn't output anything relevant
to LVM

And in reply to Dirk's email, I've added the line to my /etc/rc.conf,
but it doesn't seem to have made any difference :(
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