Re: [linux-lvm] lvm 1 unable to boot

[Martijn Schoemaker <martijn@osp.nl>]

Hi,

You can set this as an 'append ramdisksize=<size>' in your
lilo/bootloader config, but this does not always seem to
work. Best way seems to increase this number in the kernel,
but this means you need to build a new kernel first, and for
that, well, you need to be able to boot :)

Don't know much about GRUB, but the append option seems the
best solution for you.

Cheers,
Martijn

Geoff Dolman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:49, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Geoff Dolman wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I have a machine with the following partition structure:
>>>
>>>/dev/sda1 /boot (ext3)
>>>/dev/sda2 swap
>>>/dev/sda3 LVM
>>>
>>>The LVM (1.03/rh9) contains one PV and this has Volume00 in it which
>>>contains lvs for slash, usr, var, /usr/local and so on...
>>>
>>>I rebooted the machine for the first time in ages (same kernel
>>>configuration as the last reboot and no changes - or very few).
>>>
>>>The machine won't reboot - it panics because of a message (something)
>>>like:
>>>
>>>vgscan found inactive "Volume00"
>>>Error 28 Unable to make /etc/lvmtab.d/Volume00/Volume00.tmp
>>>vg_cfgbackup.c line 273
>>>
>>
>>Error 28 is ENOSPC - your initrd is too small to hold the metadata backups.
> 
> 
> Thanks - but how do I fix this?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Geoff
> 

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