How do I restore LVM1 metadata to disk on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ONLY (LVM1)

Limitation: These steps will only work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and with LVM version 1

Symptom: When initializing the logical volume manager (LVM), the system will not activate certain volume groups. Here is a typical error message from vgscan:

ERROR "vg_re...

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