Jason D. Kelleher wrote: > Yes, during installation I setup a volume group containing hda2 and > sd3. I then created a 10GB volume in the volume group. After > rebooting, LVM complained that the volume group didn't exist becuase > it couldn't find all the physical devices. > > Win XP is installed on hda (Civ III Gold Ed won't run under Winex or > VMware) and Debian on sda. I want to concat the tail end of each > drive together to hold VMware virt disks and misc CD images I pull > down, so it's easy to do manually after the fact. > > I didn't bother to mount the volume, so maybe the installer didn't > think I needed the disk - don't know. I can reinstall tomorrow and > have the volume mounted as /home or something if that would be > helpful. No, this seems to be unconnected to lvm and be a general oversight. We do take care to load ide-cd always and even ide-detect/ide-generic, which is enough to get ide cds working on otherwise fully scsi systems, but on mixed scsi/ide hard disk systems, if it boots from root on scsi I think the initrd only loads scsi modules and nothing takes care of ide-disk. If your lvm volume is used for your root filesytem, all bets are really off; it would need to have both sets of modules in the initrd and load them both. But I don't think you're trying to do that. So we need to add ide-disk it to /etc/modules, which is easily accomplished. It would be useful if you verify that adding it to /target/etc/modules before the reboot results in a working system. It could be that your DMA problem might be due to an ide chipset module not being loaded to enable dma mode for your ide controller. I don't see the pci id of your ide controller listed in our hardware database, so I don't know what the right one if any would be. -- see shy jo
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