From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jBLLNd118891 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:23:39 -0500 Received: from highlab.com (ecae158-153-dhcp.colorado.edu [128.138.158.153]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBLLNRl3016264 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:23:27 -0500 Received: from seb (helo=highlab.com) by highlab.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EpBR7-0001CJ-Gi for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:23:49 -0700 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] problem with 2.6.15-rc5 In-reply-to: <43A9AC7C.6020606@cox.net> References: <43A9AC7C.6020606@cox.net> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:23:49 -0700 From: Sebastian Kuzminsky Message-Id: Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development Old Fart wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I'm seeing almost immediate, perfectly repeatable hard lockups in > > 2.6.15-rc5 and 2.6.15-rc5-mm3, when using sata_mv, RAID, and LVM together. > > > FWIW, I have a setup similar to yours with Intel ich5 and sata promise, > software raid5 PVs and root partitions on LVs. During the install of > etch I had to go to terminal 2 during the partitioning process to get > the raid devices started and then do lvm vgscan, etc, so the partitioner > properly saw the LVs. Even so, a recent netinst of etch failed using > this method and borked one of my arrays. An earlier etch CD install > worked ok with the fiddling done in TTY2. I have seen the same > characteristics when installing other distros (Fedora 5, XOSLinuxPC > (really hard to do), Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora 4, Mandriva) not starting > the raid sets and then not being able to initialize the LVs and have had > to use the TTY2 approach. A notable exception was SuSE which did it > right from the start. Gentoo is really hard to do, I had to hack the > initrd to get the raid nodes made and run vgscan, vgchange, etc. Good > luck!! It's not an install problem. The system's up and running, I just added some more hardware. I can make the RAIDs fine and the LVM components fine, but when I use them together the system hangs. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky