Re: [linux-lvm] root on lvm

[Garcia Pascal <dld.pascal.garcia@wanadoo.fr>]

Here is the test I have been doing. Sory but I have to translate the
french message then they will bot be exact.
Installing Mandrake,
When partitionning I ask for personal, then for expert.
- hda1 : LVM for linuw.
- Add to vg rootvg
In root vg
- 1rst partition / 3000 mb reiserfs
- 2nd partition swap 1500 mb
- 3rd partition 15000 mb

rest of the vg unaffected.

All installation went well until stage : installation of boot manager.
Then a window came saying 
=================================
L'installation du programme d'amor�age a �chou�
pour la raison suivante
: Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00
=================================

That means : The installation of the boot loader failed because of the
following reason : Fatal ...

And of corse the system is not able to boot!

Regards

Pascal Garcia

Le mar 23/03/2004 � 21:21, Garcia Pascal a �crit :
> Hello
> I do not know what the problem is.
> May be the problem has nothing to see with lvm!
> I reinstalled0 the system two times with the same problem. In fact there
> is a warning when configuration lilo at installation time.
> 
> As I did not have that much time to analyse and solve the problem (if I
> would have been able to), I just made a / reisefs partition, and the
> problem went away.
> 
> I have a remark on that, / partition in a logical volume without
> reiserfs (or a fs that can be resized without unmounting) is non sense
> for me, because one can not unmount / partition, and one of the interest
> of the lvm is to adapt the size of a partition when needed.
> 
> I have a spare disk and when I have some time and my General let me do
> it, I reinstall the system and write all the problems. May be this
> week-end.
> 
> regards
> Pascal garcia
> 
> 
> Le mar 23/03/2004 � 20:24, Luca Berra a �crit :
> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:20:26PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > >My solution for this (so far) is to make a non-LVM2 /boot partition and
> > >store a kernel and initrd in that. You can then build everything else as
> > >a LVM partition. Perhaps when the available bootloaders become LVM2
> > >aware we'll be able to do away with a seperate /boot, but for now it
> > >seems to be the best way to deal with it.
> > >Cheers,
> > >-- Jeff
> > >
> > >
> > >On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:47, Garcia Pascal wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >> I experienced also difficulties with / and lvm2.
> > >> configuration: 
> > >>    MANDRAKE 10.0, 
> > >>    kernel 2.6.3, 
> > >>    lilo 22.5.8, 
> > >>    reiserfs 3.6.11 ?
> > >>    lvm 2.00.08
> > 
> > lilo on mandrake 10.0 is lvm2 aware.
> > i don't know if there are reiserfs related problems that affect Pascal
> > configuration.
> > 
> > L.
> 
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