Well, I ended up installing Debian on this server to get it (partially) operational again. The Debian install allowed me to get the evms RAID-1 partitioning set up. That is working fine now. I was able to copy all the files for TSL into the new RAID filesystems. When I reboot I get the same old joyous "TSL-initrd ERROR:" messages about its inability to mount /dev/evms/root ... it seems to do the evms_activate just fine. Then it can't find /dev/evms/root with both hands. It does gives a lot of useless information on how to type commands not available at the shell prompt though! :-) Nice concept but not quite out of QA yet.
I am certain that the initrd is lacking some critical bit but it's tedious debuggin when the system is 500 miles away, and my dummy test system here at home works fine... at least with panic=15 on the kernel line I can recover after TSL dies and bring Debian back up now to continue hacking away at it. I have copious notes which I hope to make readable on the TSL site if I ever get over the hump on this one. The Gentoo EVMS howto was the Rosetta stone; official EVMS user docs are near useless. Brian _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
