On 9-10-2011 17:19, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 20:25:50 +0200, > Gijs<info@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I created a raid-1 device for the /boot partition. I copied my existing >> boot to /boot and my existing root to the LVM-volume that is ontop of a >> raid-5 device. I tried booting from it, but I just can't get it to mount >> the root right after it boots the kernel. I get the message "no root >> device found". >> >> I pretty much tried everything. I recreated the initrd because I thought >> it might have something to do with the raid device (which I didn't have >> before). But after inspecting the initrd contents of my original stock >> kernel, I found mdadm and other raid-related files. So I figured that >> shouldn't be the problem. >> >> I tried specifying the root partition in a number of ways. By UUID, by >> "/dev/mapper/raid--5--lvm-root", by "/dev/md-0", by "/dev/raid-5/root", >> by label "root". Nothing worked. >> >> Does anyone have any idea how to solve this? > > Did you update fstab and mdadm.conf on the new system and rerun dracut? > (I usually use the kernel update script to rerun dracut so I don't > need to remember the options.) > > The initramfs includes information about which devices to activate before > doing the root pivot. If you don't have the raid array for root in mdadm.conf > the array won't be started and hence won't be available to change to. > > You might need to do something similar for lvm. I don't use it, so I don't > need to worry about it. I thought I updated the initrd, but I guess I used the wrong command. I checked the command that the RPM of the kernel runs on installation, as you suggested, and executed that command. Was able to get it booting right away :) Thanks! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
