/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda3 system LVM
/dev/sdb1 system LVM
I upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3. During the upgrade, 10.3 aborted during
the making of the initial ram disk /boot/initrd* (it got some kind of
udev error). All my kernels are there but I have NO ram disks, hence I
can't boot. When I tried booting off the kernel without an initrd, it
says it can't find the root partition (I believe it needs the
via82cxxx device driver because the root=/dev/sda2 option to grub
doesn't work). To fix this I tried
1. Booting off SUSE 10.3 disk using automatic repair - This didn't
work and it added a line to my /etc/fstab I had to remove using a
rescue disk.
2. Booting into SUSE 10.3 rescue mode - I can't use mkinitrd to create
a RAM disk here because the correct files aren't in the right places
in rescue mode to make a RAM disk image. Also, When I boot in rescue
mode, the rescue mode kernel is 2.6.22.5-23 and my on disk kernel is
2.6.22.5-31.
3. Recompiling the kernel with the drivers built in - I'd love to do
this, but my kernel source is on an LVM volume. I did a "vgscan
--mknodes" and it finds my volume and partitions but it doesn't create
the devices in /dev. How do I get it to create the devices files in
/dev?
Will recompiling the kernel with the appropriate drivers built in fix
the problem or do I need a RAM disk? Thanks.
Scott
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