Bug#249311: (no subject)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

reassign 249311 lvmcfg
retitle 249311 lvm on root problems, please run vgmknodes
thanks

* Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@univ.kiev.ua> [2004-05-16 19:58]:
> I wnated to install Debian with root on LVM.

This doesn't work at the moment.

> apt-install lvm2
> chroot /target
> mount /proc /proc -tproc
> vgmknodes

Yes, I know this has to be done, but I'm waiting for the new version
of initrd-tools to enter testing before I can make this change.

> Installation of LILO failed too. I manualy edited lilo-installer.postinst
> and set
> 
> disc_offered_devfs to /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> disc_offered to /dev/hda
> 
> Then I rerun lilo-installer and choosen /dev/hda from list.

Hmm, this doesn't seem LVM related at all.  Do you also get this when
root is not on LVM?

> After system boot failed with the following messages on console:
>  No volume groups found
> /scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh: 32: arith: syntax error: "0x"
> /sbin/init: 417: arith: syntax error: "0x"
> Then kernel panic...

This looks like #246562 which is apparently fixed in initrd-tools
(0.1.68).  Can you do an installation of unstable rather than testing
to see if it's fixed?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com