From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Daniel Savard <dsavard@videotron.ca>
Cc: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] root fs on a LVM cause kernel panic
Date: Thu Nov 15 00:03:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011114230449.B5739@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01111500471301.02493@dirac.cids.ca>; from dsavard@videotron.ca on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:41:28AM -0500
On Nov 15, 2001 00:41 -0500, Daniel Savard wrote:
> I read the lvmcreate_initrd man page and followed the instructions to create
> the kernel image with LVM support. However, I am unsuccessful to make it
> working properly. The system boot and is showing its messages, including the
> message about LVM support in the kernel and while it is trying to mount the
> root filesystem, I am getting a kernel panic message saying the "root=" stanza
> should be provided with a valid device for the root filesystem.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Is there anything missing? Any way to get extra
> debugging messages?
Did you add the initrd image to the kernel stanza in lilo.conf and re-run
lilo? It sounds like your kernel is booting, but the VGs are not active.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-15 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-14 23:53 [linux-lvm] root fs on a LVM cause kernel panic Daniel Savard
2001-11-15 0:03 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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2001-11-15 13:40 Daniel Savard
2001-11-16 10:08 ` Joost van der Locht
2001-11-16 16:57 Daniel Savard
2001-11-16 18:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-16 23:11 ` Daniel Savard
2001-11-19 2:53 ` Joost van der Locht
2001-11-16 22:50 ` Brent Harding
2001-11-19 10:10 Daniel Savard
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