On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Frank Warzecha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Runnning Kernel 2.4.7
>
> Sorry, I have to ask again: Does anyone have experiences with IPLing a
> Linux/390-System with a root-fs on a logical volume?
>
> This is what I did (maybe I did it wrong):
>
> - create a logical volume with all necessary files on /dev/rootvg/rootlv
> - lvmcreate_initrd
> - IPL the Kernel, and the initrd and an appropriate Parmfile.
> (root=/dev/rootvg/rootlv) with the VM Reader
>
> The ramdisk finds the logical volume, but the root-fs is not found!
I never tried this.
If I remember booting a initial ramdisk, root must be /dev/ram0 and inside
the ramdisk the root-volume must be switched via
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev

Read linux-2.4.x/Documentation/initrd.txt for further information.

Greetings
Oliver Paukstadt

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