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 ESMTP id i9JICRr02751 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:12:27 -0400 Received: from smtp807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.197]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with SMTP id i9JICKGj000823 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:12:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Unable to boot system From: Frank Dean In-Reply-To: <9cb08bfa04101811461b27ca0b@mail.gmail.com> References: <9cb08bfa04101811461b27ca0b@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <1098209532.335.14.camel@st-estephe.smartpixie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:12:12 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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="us-ascii" To: Pratik Solanki , LVM general discussion and development Hi Pratik, I'm afraid I'm not far past LVM newbie myself. One problem I had was the startup scripts for Mandrake 10.0 'intelligently' determined whether I was running LVM1 or LVM2 by the presence of configuration files. (The configuration methods differ between the LVM1 and 2). As I had been messing around with both LVM1 and LVM2 I had a mixture, and this destroyed the logic of the startup script. It might be worth having a little look through the startup script to figure out where it's going wrong, and maybe that'll point you at the answer. I believe Mandrake is similar to RedHat, so chances are that your startup script is also /etc/rc.sysinit. It's worth noting that the script expects errors in some situations and retries some operations again later. So seeing errors during boot isn't necessarily a problem... Of course, it might be failing before you get to the startup script, but that would suggest something modified your initrd image during the upgrade, if the upgrade is the cause and not a red herring. Cheers, Frank On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 19:46, Pratik Solanki wrote: > Hello, > > I am a newbie to LVM and recently installed Fedora Core 2 with LVM. I > have 2 hard disks, only one of them is used in a volume group. I have > 4 logical volumes in the group, /, /usr, /home and swap. Everything > was wonrkinbg fine until I decided to upgrade my system through yum. I > used the development releases since I wanted gnome 2.8. I did not > update everything; instead I just updated selective gnome packages. > After rebooting my system refuses to come up. It says something like > > Uncompressing Linux .... > ... > Reading all physical volumes. This can take a while ... > Found Volume Group "Vol0". metadata lvm2 > 4 logical Volumes in volume group "Vol0" now active > Restarting System > > I can use the fedora rescue disk and mount all the volumes without any > problem. I did notice that when I was restarting, my systems showed > errors when disabling swap (swapoff), but it went by too fast for me > to write down the exact error. Something about /dev/mapper/LV03 not > found. > > Any ideas on what is causing this and how I can fix it. > > Thanks, > Pratik. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >