Wayne Topa wrote:
<snip> do a grep on your /boot/config-2.6.10 for the following CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y Those are all I have enabled for a working LVM2. Note that I do not have / setup as LVM so I don't have a problem. ISTR reading something, from a Google search, on what you have to do to boot from a LVM partition. Don't remember the particulars as I had no intention of doing it that way. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) Wayne
Thanks Wayne,well i've had a similar problem 2 months back and i solved it. Just not sure how. Having / on LVM is another level of difficulty but i like having root on LVM.
Anyway, i found a couple of things i can still try. First i'll try a standard kernel and change the modules loaded in /etc/modules and making sure that at least these are in there ext3 dm_mod ide_generic ide_cd ide_disk piix Then i'll vi /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and change ROOT=probe to ROOT=/dev/main/lv_rootAnd aftewards make in initrd again hoping it now detects the root correctly and includes
the modules listed in /etc/modules.Then i think the initrd will at least see the lvm2 root partition and load the appropriate
modules. I hope this will solve the problem. Regards, Benedict