Re: Root on LVM bug
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:35:08PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> I recently installed etch on an amd64 box which previously had Fedora.
> It had a small ext2 /boot and large LVM, so I shrunk Fedora's volume and
> made a new one for Debian, where I installed everything. I included the
> LVM modules in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules . Then I added the
> following section to /boot/grub/menu.lst :
>
> title Debian
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amd64 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
> initrd /initrd.img-2.6.18-4-amd64
known bug see #378332, #402931;
> When I booted, it sat at "Begin: Waiting for root file system..." but
> the Fedora 2.6.11 kernel started right up with otherwise identical
> options (except that it couldn't load the Fedora modules in Debian).
>
> After a few hours of messing around, on a whim I tried changing the
> root= parameter to /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 , which worked!
this is the real root dev
> So I believe something is wrong with either mount or udev used in the
> initramfs, such that it either doesn't create the /dev/<groupname>
> entries, or can't mount them. I did a ton of searching and couldn't
> find anything, so I don't think this is a known issue.
no it is not an udev trouble.
so the root arg you were passing is a symlink, it is only created
after vgchange run.
it is an chicken egg trouble, once you pass root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv
it is certain to be an lvm2. unlinke to mdadm we can't enable all
vg as lvm2 is prone to data corruption with empty vg.
--
maks
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