Hi Im struggeling migrating from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test9 with root on lvm My config: /boot not on lvm (ext2) / on lvm (reisergs) on device /dev/vg/gentoo With kernel 2.4 i invoked lvm_createinitrd an everything worked fine (useing grub with cmdline "initrd=/initr-lvm-2.4.22.gz" and "root=/dev/vg/gentoo" Now the problem with 2.6 Did: emerge lvm2; emerge -C lvm-user Want to build an initrd for the new kernel with mkinitrd (ver 3.5.7-r2)
mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd-2.6.0 2.6.0-test9 --preload dm-mod <<<< Looking for deps of module dm-mod Looking for deps of module ide-disk Looking for deps of module lvm-mod Looking for deps of module reiserfs Looking for deps of module lvm-mod Using modules: ./kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko ./kernel/fs/reiserfs reiserfs.ko Using loopback device /dev/loop1 /sbin/nash -> /tmp/initrd.dEHPJJ/bin/nash /sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.dEHPJJ/bin/insmod `/lib/modules/2.6.0-test9/./kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko' -> `/tmp initrd.dEHPJJ/lib/dm-mod.ko' `/lib/modules/2.6.0-test9/./kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko' -> `/tmp initrd.dEHPJJ/lib/reiserfs.ko' cp: cannot stat `exported': No such file or directory /sbin/vgscan.static -> /tmp/initrd.dEHPJJ/bin/vgscan cp: cannot stat `/sbin/vgscan.static': No such file or directory /sbin/vgchange.static -> /tmp/initrd.dEHPJJ/bin/vgchange cp: cannot stat `/sbin/vgchange.static': No such file or directory Loading module dm-mod Loading module reiserfs >>>>> It seems to be unable to load lvm supporting tools to the initrd. As a result, trying to boot with this initrd panics (no root) With a message: ERROR: faild in exec of vgscan what can i do ? Thanks felix -- Felix Kurth pgp public key: http://www.fkurth.de/keys/felix.fkurth.asc key fingerprint: D401 DCF8 2BF8 50DF 2FAD 8136 C29B 83EE C0A1 F2AD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
