[linux-lvm] Booting into LVM

[Roger Lucas]

Hi Graham,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I had missed the whole "no devfs if >= 2.6.14"
problem, although significant Google-ing had already been done :-)

I'm following through everything now.

Thanks again,

Roger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Graham Wood
> Sent: 17 February 2006 14:12
> To: LVM general discussion and development
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Booting into LVM
> 
> Roger Lucas wrote:
> > My guess is that LVM isn't being loaded/started/configured correctly at
> boot
> > time or that there is some problem with "/dev"...
> >
> > Can anyone shed any light on this?
> >
> I believe that 2.6.14 is after devfs stopped being supported, so you're
> going to have to go with udev instead - which also means that mkinitrd
> isn't going to work either.  (I think there's lvm2 compatability issues
> as well, but I just went for Sid instead of trying to get sarge working
> with a new kernel)
> 
> If you google for 'debian sarge udev' there are quite a few pages that
> give details about what needs to be done - although they may not be
> exactly what you're after...
> 
> If that isn't the answer then I'm sure we can help you work through it :)
> 
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