James wrote:
Carsten Aulbert wrote:
James wrote:
Oh also on top of the error i pass the entire installation and get
the following as well.
I boot into the new installation and it searches for ROOT filesystem
but fails.
Error =
Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/mapper/lvmtest-root does not exist. dropping to shell!
Blind guess: You are booting a kernel which is not LVM aware? I.e.
you are using an initrd without LVM support.
HTH
Carsten
ok yeah i guess i installed the required pre-req packages in the wrong
place of the nfsroot.
My bad.
Thanks much.
-James
Concerning Volume Groups:
I'd suggest adding in your documentation that something like the
following won't work because of "-" after the volume group sizes.
And saying that volume group sizes must be EXACT or you'll get a generic
error from parted saying that /dev/sda has a bad label
Bad disk_config file:
#####################################
disk_config sda bootable:1
primary /boot 500 ext3 defaults
primary - 6096- - -
disk_config lvm
vg lvmtest sda2
lvmtest-swap swap 1048- swap sw
lvmtest-root / 1048- xfs defaults
lvmtest-dev /dev 1048- xfs defaults
lvmtest-var /var 1048- xfs defaults
lvmtest-home /home 1048- xfs defaults
Good disk_config file:
#####################################
disk_config sda bootable:1
primary /boot 500 ext3 defaults
primary - 6096- - -
disk_config lvm
vg lvmtest sda2
lvmtest-swap swap 1048 swap sw
lvmtest-root / 1048 xfs defaults
lvmtest-dev /dev 1048 xfs defaults
lvmtest-var /var 1048 xfs defaults
lvmtest-home /home 1048 xfs defaults
This is just something that gave me some trouble for an hour or two.
Thought it could save a few people some trouble.
-James
