[linux-lvm] Root LVM + ReiserFS

[Goetz Bock]

On Wed, May 02 '01 at 17:05, Lionel Cottin wrote:
> But when i try to boot on a LVM root device with a reiserFS filesystem, i
> have an error like:
> VFS unable to mount device xx:xx
> 
> And the system hangs up...
> 
> Here is my lilo.conf:
> 
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> default=custom
          ^^^^^^
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
>         label=linux
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda6
> 
> image=/boot/custom
>         label=custom
                ^^^^^^
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda6
> 
> image=/boot/custom
>         label=custom2
                ^^^^^^^
>         append = "ramdisk_size=8192"
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.4.gz
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/rootVG/rootVOL
It should work (it works for me)
but my be you wanted to have custom2 as default (you need the initrd to
activate the LVM)

Cu,
    Goetz.
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