Volume group "/dev/vg00" does not exist in the "/etc/lvmtab" file.

[Donald C Nelson]

I have tried removing the lvmtab and vgscan -v. The system boots up fine with its primary boot path. lvlnboot -v gives me a blank line and it still says the physical volumes can't be queried after a reboot. Outside of going into maintenance mode and doing a vgimport of the physical volume back into vg00, does any know of a way for vg00 to claim its physical volume.

[Steven E. Protter]

If you have been saving the map files you should be able to do a vgimport and get everything back.

You don't need to be in maintenance mode to accomplish this.

SEP

[Donald C Nelson]

You can't vgimport when vg00 is active and when try to vgimport the physical device,it says:

Beginning the import process on Volume Group "/dev/vg00".
Volume group "/dev/vg00" is still active.

vgchange -a n vg00
vgchange: Volume group "/dev/vg00" does not exist in the "/etc/lvmtab" file.

[Wayne Patton_1]

The only way I have seen this done after trying vgscan like you have said is to boot in maintenance mode, then vgexport/vgimport.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

a small note:

lvlnboot -v shouldn't print a blank line ;)
I also think going to hpux -lm is the thing to do, but please check that at least /stand/rootconf is okay before doing that.