On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:15:12 -0600 Maxim Wexler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems if I add the commands: > > vgscan --mknodes > vgchange -a y > mount -a > > to /etc/conf.d/bootmisc and add it to the boot runlevel, the eee boots > to a coherent system BUT not before going through LVM failure, errors, > inability to find volumes etc through many console lines until just > after the line: > > *Configuring kernel parameters... > > comes > > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Found volume group "vg" using metadata type lvm2 > 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg" now active > ... > > And everything is fine after that. So it looks like a question of > timing, of executing bootmisc or something like it earlier, say just > after loading dm-mod and dm-crypt and just before the line in the > console: > > *Setting up the Logical Volume Manager... > > When it all starts to fall apart. > > FWIW I'm using baselayout-2. I've had such problem in the past, even filed the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255237 For me, the problem was that "device-mapper" initscript started after "lvm". I believe there's "after device-mapper" line already in lvm-2.02.45, so it should run fine, but as an additional precaution I have dm-crypt script at sysinit runlevel, which starts device-mapper and dm-crypt before lvm or even it's runlevel (boot). It makes sense for me, since some lvm pv's (not root) are actually on encrypted partitions, although I mount these even earlier, but should initrd become incompatible w/ latest kernel, dm-crypt should do the job instead. Guess you can do the same, at least if you don't have dm-crypt mappings, or you can try adding device-mapper to sysinit level directly. Here's my boot sequence (from rc.log): rc sysinit logging started at Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 OpenRC 0.4.3 is starting up Gentoo Linux (i686) Press I to enter interactive boot mode * Mounting /proc... [ ok ] * Mounting /sys... [ ok ] * Mounting debug filesystem... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev... [ ok ] * Starting udevd... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev/pts... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev/shm... [ ok ] * device-mapper uses addon code which is deprecated * and may not be available in the future. * Setting up dm-crypt mappings... * dm-crypt mapping lvcrypt is already configured [ ok ] rc sysinit logging stopped at Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 rc boot logging started at Fri Jun 12 04:24:55 2009 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [Local Time]... [ ok ] * Autoloaded 0 module(s) * lvm uses addon code which is deprecated * and may not be available in the future. * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager... Locking type -1 initialisation failed. [ ok ] * Checking local filesystems ... ... -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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