diff --git a/nixos/tests/installer.nix b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
index 158a19925c20..22132073142f 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
@@ -555,16 +555,26 @@ in {
           + " mkpart primary 2048M -1s"  # PV2
           + " set 2 lvm on",
           "udevadm settle",
+          "sleep 1",
           "pvcreate /dev/vda1 /dev/vda2",
+          "sleep 1",
           "vgcreate MyVolGroup /dev/vda1 /dev/vda2",
+          "sleep 1",
           "lvcreate --size 1G --name swap MyVolGroup",
+          "sleep 1",
           "lvcreate --size 2G --name nixos MyVolGroup",
+          "sleep 1",
           "mkswap -f /dev/MyVolGroup/swap -L swap",
           "swapon -L swap",
           "mkfs.xfs -L nixos /dev/MyVolGroup/nixos",
           "mount LABEL=nixos /mnt",
       )
     '';
+    postBootCommands = ''
+      assert "loaded active" in machine.succeed(
+          "systemctl list-units 'lvm2-pvscan@*' -ql --no-legend | tee /dev/stderr"
+      )
+    '';
   };
 
   # Boot off an encrypted root partition with the default LUKS header format