swap not turned on at boot

[ron]

Rick,

Thank you so much for your help. I tried your suggestion and still got
the same error message. I decided to use the swap space on the other
drive for now. I learned a lot about drive partitioning and logical
volumes from this.

[root at coresix archive]# /usr/sbin/pvcreate --uuid
"ZLNZwN-beD3-SPWN-gm9f-t2hA-K8op-q1qs0K" --restorefile
/etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg /dev/sdb2
File descriptor 11 left open
File descriptor 12 left open
File descriptor 13 left open
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum
  /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg: stat failed: No such file or directory
  Couldn't read volume group metadata.
  Unable to read volume group from /etc/lvm/archive/sys_vg_00002.vg

-ron-