From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E0D9F03.8010704@wanadoo.fr> From: Francis SOUYRI MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems mounting LVM root volume References: <1041074125.3e0d87cdaaece@ogd.nl> In-Reply-To: <1041074125.3e0d87cdaaece@ogd.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Dec 28 06:55:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hello Patrick, There is not enough space ("vgscan -- ERROR 28" check the file "/usr/include/asm/errno.h") in the ramdisk to create the file "/etc/lvmtab.d/vg3.tmp" What files did you copy to your ramdisk ? Best regards. Francis Patrick van den Berg wrote: >Hello everybody, > >I'm new at using LVM and I ran into trouble using it. I've got problems >mounting an LVM volume as root on my system running Gentoo Linux 1.4. My >configuration is as follows (skip to the bottom of the text for the actual >error message): > >Gigabyte mainboard with onboard Promise RAID. I've got 2 80GB discs attached >(same model) and configured as RAID1. I installed via the Gentoo RC1 Stage 1 >CDROM. During boot of the CD I had to abort and add the "IDE0=0x9400,0x9802 >IDE2=0x9c00,0xa002" parameters to be able to load the pdcraid module. > >My fstab looks as follows: > >/dev/ataraid/disc0/part1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 1 >/dev/vg3/rootlv / reiserfs noatime 0 0 >/dev/ataraid/disc0/part2 none swap sw 0 0 >/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 >proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 >tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > >I also compiled my kernel using the gentoo-sources, and with the following >options enabled: > >- LVM support >- Built-in RAM disk support with initrd >- DEV fs support >- mount DEV filesystem at boot >- ReiserFS support > >I also ran lvmcreate_initrd with the -M option, because everything is compiled >in the kernel. Also, when I run lvmceate_initrd without the -M options, it >returns errors and the lvm image is not created. > >My grub,conf (linked to menu.lst) looks as follows: > >default 0 >timeout 30 >splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > >title=Gentoo 1.4 GNU/Linux on Antigone >root (hd0,0) >kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/vg3/rootlv ide0=0x9400,0x9802 ide2=0x9c00,0xa002 >initrd /boot/initrd-lvm.gz > > >When I boot the system grub starts correctly, but when grub wants to boot my >system the following messages appear: > >Code: >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >Freeing initrd memory: 994k freed. >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >Mounted devfs on /dev >vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg3" >vgscan -- ERROR 28 writing volumegroup backup file /etc/lvmtab.d/vg3.tmp in >vg_cfgbackup.c [line273] >vgscan -- ERROR: "lvm_tab_vg_remove(): unlink" removing volume group "vg3" >from "/etc/lvmtab.d" >vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" succesfully created >vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group > >vgchange -- no volume groups found > >VFS: Cannot open root device "vg3/rootlv" or 00:00 >Please append a correct "root=" boot option >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on 00:00 > > >Now, the strange thing is, when I boot via the CD and do vgscan and >vgchange -ay by hand, I can mount /dev/vg3/rootlv normally! > >Does anybody got any ideas? I've run out of them > >Thanks for any help in advance. When you need any more info, just say so. > >Regards, >Patrick > > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > >