From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i32Mgvj14505 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:42:57 -0500 Received: from mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i32Mgujj015902 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:42:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] root on lvm From: Garcia Pascal In-Reply-To: <1080073262.2189.16.camel@pascal> References: <1079478024.2432.9.camel@rich> <1079705946.29353.6.camel@tesla.mmt.bellhowell.com> <1079729272.2126.12.camel@pascal> <1079922026.2361.7.camel@localhost> <20040323192451.GE24728@percy.comedia.it> <1080073262.2189.16.camel@pascal> Message-Id: <1080945751.2422.9.camel@pascal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:42:32 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: LVM general discussion and development 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. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/