From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AEB0146.C9D05ED5@home.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 10:43:34 -0700 From: Evan Day MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on root, Kernel panic: "I have no root and I must scream" References: <20010428095923.B4149@colombina.comedia.it> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com A quick thanks to everyone on the list who offered tips & advice for making my setup work. I finally got everything loaded, configured, partitioned, mirrored, and LVMed! Problem 1: needed to use install-mbr to put an MBR on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Problem 2: needed to upgrade LILO Now I have the install-mbr MBR booting, which gets me to LILO (21.7) installed on /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1). The older version of LILO I was using (21.5) didn't seem to work with md devices (I recall reading about that somewhere, too). Running Kernel 2.4.4 w/ LVM 0.9.1b7 (had to make a minor change to lvm.c to get the kernel to compile): day@kirk:~$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/vg00/lvol1 131064 102124 28940 78% / /dev/md0 48056 38656 9400 80% /boot /dev/vg00/lvol2 1048540 551088 497452 53% /usr /dev/vg00/lvol3 262132 130240 131892 50% /var /dev/vg00/lvol4 262132 32840 229292 13% /tmp /dev/vg00/lvol5 262132 32840 229292 13% /hom kirk:~# fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 7 23 136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 24 40 136552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 41 522 3871665 fd Linux raid autodetect (/dev/sdb is the same) kirk:~# cat /etc/lilo.conf lba32 boot=/dev/md0 root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=lvm-linux image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.4.gz image=/vmlinuz.lvm label=lvm-linux initrd=/boot/initrd-lvm-2.4.4.gz root=/dev/vg00/lvol1 read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=linux-old read-only optional Thanks again! -Evan