From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB3F3DB.5090600@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909182248.21032@blacky.localdomain>
On 09/18/2009 11:48 AM, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>> I'm having troubles booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8. The same kernel
>> boots fine on F11, but on F8, it cannot find the root logical volume.
>>
>> One thing I notice is that F11 uses root=/dev/mapper... and F8 uses
>> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in grub. It's not clear to me what
>> the value of mapper should be...is there some way to figure this
>> out from an older kernel (2.6.29) that boots fine?
>
> I've recently faced a very similar problem, trying to boot some "modern"
> kernel on debian etch system.
>
> It was solved by putting more recent lvm2 binary into initrd.
The LVM2 mailing list gave me another answer:
Compile with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
This will likely not work on later distributions, but seems to work
fine for Fedora 8, at least.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-18 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 17:55 Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8 Ben Greear
2009-09-18 18:48 ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2009-09-18 20:55 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-09-18 19:25 ` Joseph Fannin
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