From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Austin Gonyou Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Qb3U2pQ+913g5uq6JEDs" Message-Id: <1010433555.30682.4.camel@UberGeek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [linux-lvm] [Fwd: Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS?] Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Jan 7 13:57:02 2002 List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --=-Qb3U2pQ+913g5uq6JEDs Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-jNo2Q3ZYQjuSlytry9Zy" --=-jNo2Q3ZYQjuSlytry9Zy Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here is a forwarded message about How you would do the GRUB + LVM. Hope this helps.=20 --=20 Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-698-7250 email: austin@coremetrics.com "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." Latin Proverb --=-jNo2Q3ZYQjuSlytry9Zy Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS? Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from oss.sgi.com ([216.32.174.27]) by ausmail.coremetrics.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id CDZCT4C0; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:54:21 -0600 Received: from localhost (mail@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g07KsKO24417; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:54:20 -0800 Received: by oss.sgi.com (bulk_mailer v1.13); Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:54:11 -0800 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g07KsAx24362 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:54:10 -0800 Received: from shakti.rupa.com (foobar@cx838204-a.alsv1.occa.home.com [24.16.83.66]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g07Ks4g24340 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:54:05 -0800 Received: from shakti.rupa.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.rupa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9FC48FC8; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by shakti.rupa.com (Postfix, from userid 9) id D8A3E48D59; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from 192.168.1.20 by 192.168.1.20 with nntp; 7 Jan 2002 11:54:01 PST Message-ID: From: Rupa Schomaker To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: GRUB + LVM + XFS? Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:54:01 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You need a ext2 /boot (or if you've applied the xfs patches to grub you can use that). /boot cannot be in the LVM. You'll need an initrd that initializes the LVM. Your lvm package should come with the command "lvmcreate_initrd" -- this will create a minimal initrd that *only* starts lvm. If you need other things in your initrd then you'll have to "hack" the generated one. I'd recommend compiling in all the other components you need in the kernel rather than using modules. (for example, compile in your scsi drivers) I'm having toubles with the current CVS version of the XFS kernel. I haven't had time to look at it completely, but... it could be: 1) mismatch between userspace and kernel (what LVM is in the XFS kernel? I'm using the debian lvm10 userspace). 2) bad config 3) ??? A quick "bt" at boot in kdb shows that devfs is in the call path. No, I haven't had time to write everything down. :( Man, I wish there was an easy to dump the kdb info or an OOPs to disk... Austin Gonyou writes: > Is it possible to boot a LVM XFS root with GRUB? > --=20 > Austin Gonyou > Systems Architect, CCNA > Coremetrics, Inc. > Phone: 512-698-7250 > email: austin@coremetrics.com > > "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." > Latin Proverb --=20 -rupa --=-jNo2Q3ZYQjuSlytry9Zy-- --=-Qb3U2pQ+913g5uq6JEDs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8Of4T94g6ZVmFMoIRAlP1AJ9+ZMCG+etL85gY/eGm3mhmaackBwCfUA2P 0C8HWr3nAboE5pIvgNCFubA= =XakF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Qb3U2pQ+913g5uq6JEDs--