From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:48:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401134833.GG29222@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080765764.12286.20.camel@lupin.private.cimr.cam.ac.uk>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:42:44PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:49, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have a machine with the following partition structure:
> > >
> > > /dev/sda1 /boot (ext3)
> > > /dev/sda2 swap
> > > /dev/sda3 LVM
> > >
> > > The LVM (1.03/rh9) contains one PV and this has Volume00 in it which
> > > contains lvs for slash, usr, var, /usr/local and so on...
> > >
> > > I rebooted the machine for the first time in ages (same kernel
> > > configuration as the last reboot and no changes - or very few).
> > >
> > > The machine won't reboot - it panics because of a message (something)
> > > like:
> > >
> > > vgscan found inactive "Volume00"
> > > Error 28 Unable to make /etc/lvmtab.d/Volume00/Volume00.tmp
> > > vg_cfgbackup.c line 273
> > >
> >
> > Error 28 is ENOSPC - your initrd is too small to hold the metadata backups.
>
> Thanks - but how do I fix this?
Append the kernel boot parameter "ramdisk_size=" and give a size in kilobytes
(eg, 'ramdisk_size=16384' makes 16MB ram disks.
>
> cheers
>
> Geoff
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-31 14:59 [linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot Geoff Dolman
2004-03-31 15:49 ` Patrick Caulfield
2004-03-31 19:33 ` [linux-lvm] max LV size Alexander Lazarevich
2004-04-01 13:44 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2004-03-31 20:42 ` [linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot Geoff Dolman
2004-03-31 20:10 ` Martijn Schoemaker
2004-03-31 20:58 ` Re : " Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2004-04-01 13:48 ` Heinz Mauelshagen [this message]
2004-04-01 14:49 ` Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)
2004-04-01 14:54 ` Luca Berra
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