The real problem with evms is its lack of docs. Even a simple command reference would be handy. Anyone who has pointers to good docs for evms please share. Please dont point to the crappy incomplete docs at evms.sourceforge.net. I do mean incomplete. Read the answers in the FAQ which for a year have said "answer coming soon"! Right! Soon.
I have a system that I am trying to bring up and it insists that it can't mount /dev/evms/hda2 on root. It gives a helpful message about remounting the partition, gives the actual command to use, drops to a shell, and then refuses to execute the command. Refuses even after I try 47 variations of that command... even after I run evms_activate for it. The only way out seems to be to reboot. Wash, rinse, repeat. I didnt especially WANT it to mount /dev/evms/hda2, I wanted it to mount /dev/hda2 like a normal healthy computer. I don't know why it ignores root=/dev/hda2 on the kernel line in the grub.conf file and instead insists that /dev/evms/hda2 is the way to go. I dislike it when computers don't do what I tell them. Why does it not mount /dev/hda2? Pesky computer. After dropping to a shell, I can see there is no /dev/evms/hda2 and yet a few lines above I can see it (tried to) run evms_activate. If I run evms_activate manually at this point, it does create the /dev/evms/hda* entries. So it seems that even when I knuckle under and use root=/dev/evms/hda2 it still fails. Note that none of this was created by the normal TSL installer CDROM. I am trying to install on a remote system using a rescue CDROM. I have done this successfully many times in the past. I created a tar of a system at home, and copied up to the remote system. Not sure what is up this time. The system used to create the tar at home does not use EVMS at all. That's another weirdness. I am trying to understand what is going on here. One idea is that the target system was built with evms and it has wedged in the drive in some magic invisible place and even repartitioning and reformatting did not dislodge the settings. I can run evmsn from the rescue CD but find it does not help at all... I thought perhaps there was some magic data hiding on the hard drive telling it the partition is an evms volume but evmsn is not helping me, because it is so reluctant to reveal anything except the names of my partitions. Can anyone shed light upon the mysteries of evms? Thanks and thanks again... Brian _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
