On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:39:12PM -0700, Day, Evan wrote: > I hosed things up good at lunch and started a reinstall before I went back > to work. I'll finish it up as soon as I get home and see what I can come up > with. The only thing I see different in your linuxrc is the raidstart -a. > I'm not doing that, and didn't think it would be necessary (my RAIDS are > type fd in the partmap and have persistent-superblock 1 in /etc/raidtab). > > Except for using GRUB instead of LILO (and kernel modules for raid/lvm), my > setup looks almost identical to yours. I'm not using devfs, but that > shouldn't matter. I have seen problems with GRUB that are fixed by using LILO. I'm not sure what the issues are. GRUB seems to be a lot more touchy though. Have you tried using LILO? > What I really don't get is that I can put a mount /dev/vg00/lvol1 in > /linuxrc and it mounts! I can also boot with a root of /dev/sda2 (old root > partition), with /etc/fstab pointing / at /dev/vg00/lvol1 (from sda2) and it > mounts okay. > > I'll have to see if I can run a serial cable from the linux machine to > another PC to capture logs. > > Thanks for the help > -Evan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luca Berra [mailto:bluca comedia it] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:12 PM > To: 'linux-lvm sistina com' > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on root, Kernel panic: "I have no root and > I must scream" > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:48:23PM -0700, Day, Evan wrote: > > I've tried both setting root=/dev/vg00/lvol1 and root=0x3a00 - neither > > worked. I'm probably just going to put / as the first device (including > > /boot) on RAID-1 and make the rest of the system LVM. I've spent too many > > days trying to make root on LVM work and I need my system back... > > > can you send me some more details on what happens, > a log would be great if you can log on a serial device > > it *should* work > > here is what i have (i dun use lvmcreate_initrd) > > [vc/2]bluca Moskowskaya:~% df > /dev/vg01/lvol1 253920 60104 180712 25% / > /dev/md/0 29621 10798 17294 38% /boot > /dev/vg01/lvol3 2064208 1675988 283364 86% /usr > /dev/vg01/lvol4 507848 255632 226004 53% /var > /dev/vg01/lvol5 253920 9428 231388 4% /tmp > /dev/vg01/lvol6 2064208 1673716 285636 85% /opt > /dev/vg01/lvol7 4128448 3137540 781196 80% /home > > [vc/3]root Moskowskaya:~# cat /etc/lilo.conf > boot = /dev/md/0 > timeout = 50 > prompt > root = 0x3a00 #/dev/vg01/lvol1 > read-only > map = /boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > default = linux > optional > append = "panic=60 devfs=symlinks video=tdfx:800x600-32 72 > root=/dev/vg01/lvol1" > vga=normal > restricted > > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-ac3 > label = 243ac3 > initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.3-ac3 > alias = linux > > [vc/3]root Moskowskaya:~# cat /boot/initrd-source/linuxrc > #!/bin/sh -x > mount -t proc /proc /proc > echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe > insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o > aic7xxx=verbose > insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.o > insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/xor.o > insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.o > raidstart -a > vgchange -a y > sulogin -t 10 > umount /proc > > [vc/3]root Moskowskaya:~# find /boot/initrd-source -type f > /boot/initrd-source/bin/BusyBox > /boot/initrd-source/bin/insmod > /boot/initrd-source/bin/raidstart > /boot/initrd-source/bin/sulogin > /boot/initrd-source/bin/vgchange > /boot/initrd-source/bin/vgscan > /boot/initrd-source/etc/lvmtab.d/vg01 > /boot/initrd-source/etc/passwd > /boot/initrd-source/etc/raidtab > /boot/initrd-source/lib/ld-linux.so.2 > /boot/initrd-source/lib/libc.so.6 > /boot/initrd-source/lib/libcrypt.so.1 > /boot/initrd-source/lib/liblvm-11.so.0 > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/md/xor.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xx > x.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o > /boot/initrd-source/lib/modules/2.4.3-ac3/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o > /boot/initrd-source/linuxrc > > L. > > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca comedia it > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm sistina com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm sistina com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm -- AJ Lewis Sistina Software Inc. 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