From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] root fs on a LVM cause kernel panic Message-ID: <20011114230449.B5739@lynx.no> References: <01111500471301.02493@dirac.cids.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01111500471301.02493@dirac.cids.ca>; from dsavard@videotron.ca on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:41:28AM -0500 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: Thu Nov 15 00:03:01 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Daniel Savard Cc: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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 -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/