From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James B. Byrne " MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3CF62BF4.16148.100D4B1C@localhost> In-reply-to: Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: LVM 1.03 root file system on Redhat 7.3 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 May 30 12:42:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On 30 May 2002 at 1:22, linux-lvm-request@sistina.com wrote: > What I am seeing is this: > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-7 errno = 2 > > repeated 16 times, followed by > > vgvchange -- volume group "vg00" successfully activated > > VFS: Cannot open root device "vg00"/lv01: or 00:00 > Please append correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 The kmod error is reputedly caused by the ramdisk image file (created by lvmcreate_initrd) not containing a /sbin/modprobe command. How can I verify if this is so? I note that redhat has /sbin/modprobe as a logical link to insmod. Could this be confusing lvmcreate_initrd? Regards, Jim --- e-mail is NOT a secure channel James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3