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From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to,kernel
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:40:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080519124014.GA5134@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483135CF.1080809@gfi-info.com>

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:09:51AM +0200, Raquel Real L�pez wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have got  a RedHat 3 Update 6 system. The system has a hard disk It's 
> partitioned like:
> /dev/sda1 /boot Linux
> /dev/sda2 LVM
>    /dev/disk1Vol/rootvol /
>    /dev/disk1Vol/export /export
>    /dev/disk1Vol/softw /softw
>
> The system was booted and it didn't start again.
> The message was:
> vgscan  ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of 
> volume group "disk1Vol" from physical volume

Any indication that the disk turned bad from before ?

Looks like it either did and your single copy of the LVM1 metadata
went south
-or-
the metadata got corrupted somehow differently.

>
> And then:
>
> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to
> kernel.

Expected kernel behaviour w/o root fs.

>
> If I boot with a rescue disk and I type "lvdisplay", LV UUID is 
> "000000-00....".

LVM1 didn't have UUIDs on LVs, that's why.
Can you access the VG from the rescue disk and access your data alright ?

>
> How can I recover the system?

If the disk's intact, and you better prove that by running access tests
on /dev/sda from your rescue disk, you have to restore the metadata from
backup using pvcreate+vgcfgrestore. See man vgcfgrestore for details.

>
> Thanks in advance
> I
>
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-19 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-19  8:09 [linux-lvm] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to,kernel Raquel Real López
2008-05-19 12:40 ` Heinz Mauelshagen [this message]
2008-05-19 15:19   ` Raquel Real López
2008-05-20 13:07   ` Raquel Real López

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