On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:10:34 +0100 Torsten Veller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | * Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:58:27 +0100 Christian Herzyk | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | I am running Gentoo with 2.4 kernel right now. | > | I would like to check out 2.6 to see how it works. | > | > lvm2 can't be used with an unpatched 2.4 kernel. Oh, and don't try | > to override the block and install lvm1 and lvm2 in parallel, it | > doesn't work. | | Does anyone know about a reasonable upgrade path?
Thanks to Marcelo's brain-dead patch-accepting policy [1], there isn't one. This was argued about a lot on lkml a few weeks ago. Here's what you've gotta do: * Build up a 2.6 kernel, install, set up [sl]ilo etc * Unmerge lvm-user * Emerge lvm2 * Reboot and hope that you got your 2.6 kernel working correctly first time Alternatively: * Find and apply the DM-on-2.4 patch * Build up a DM-enabled 2.4 kernel * Unmerge lvm-user * Emerge lvm2 * Reboot and almost certainly have a working 2.4 kernel * Do the 2.6 thing safe in the knowledge that if your keyboard stiiiill isn't supported then you can actually reboot safely back to 2.4 and see your data. [1]: See also: XFS -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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