From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i42M8Vv13919 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 18:08:31 -0400 Received: from smtp010.tiscali.dk (smtp010.tiscali.dk [212.54.64.103]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i42M8U99026272 for ; Sun, 2 May 2004 18:08:30 -0400 Received: from sneakemail.com (62.79.51.144.adsl.noe.tiscali.dk [62.79.51.144]) by smtp010.tiscali.dk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i42M8Sul024068 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 00:08:28 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4095715C.3000900@sneakemail.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 00:08:28 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6 upgrade - LVM version ? & root partition access problems... References: <408C2883.5080606@sneakemail.com> <20040426135853.GA17309@null.msp.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040426135853.GA17309@null.msp.redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com AJ Lewis alewis-at-redhat.com |Lists| wrote: > Someone made a new initrd creation script and posted it here: > http://www.poochiereds.net/svn/lvm2/ > I can't guarentee it'll work, but i've heard good things about it. Use it > against the 2.6.5 kernel you compiled. Well, I did finally did get it to work. Quite a strenuous road, though.=20 For others that may google later, here are some of the things I ran=20 into, and their solutions: 1) There was no console. The script created /dev/consoleonly, but I had=20 & needed /dev/console. 2) "No space left on device" The initrd ran out of inodes during=20 creation. Presumably because MKDEV on my system creates very, very many=20 items for /dev (2601 /dev/tty* and 1728 /dev/sd* for instance) 3) MKDEV takes a -d option on my RH9 system telling it where to put the=20 files. Instead, the script cd-ed to the directory and expected them to=20 be put in ./ 4) fsck.ext3 failed during boot. I discovered that adding " fastboot" as=20 a parameter to the kernel allowed me to get past that point and still=20 end up in a 2.6.5 kernel, so I could run "lvm vgmknodes" that apparently=20 created what I needed, so that I could get past the fsck hurdle, even=20 without " fastboot". (Took me a while to figure *that* one out! :-D) I've created a new version (incl. svn diff) of the script here: http://wwww.morch.com/postings/lvm2/ Sincerely, Peter --=20 Peter Valdemar M=EF=BF=BDrch http://www.morch.com