Re: LVM, SATA controllers and BIOS devices

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Chris Boyd wrote:
> So I have an issue with CentOS 5.3 i386, LVM, and SATA.
> 
> Boot device is a 200GB ATA disk on hda2.
> 
> I've added a couple of disks with the on-the-mobo SATA controller ports
> and grown the EXT3 fs with system-config-lvm.
> 
> Then, as an experiment, I added a PCI SATA controller and an additional
> disk.  Ran system-config-lvm, added the new space to the existing
> VolGroup00, and all was good.
> 
> Feeling confident, I shut the box down and plugged another disk in to
> the PCI SATA controller.  On reboot, I was greeted with a kernel panic
> since the OS could not find "really-long-label."  Removing the new SATA
> disk did not fix the issue.

My guess would be that the driver for the new PCI card isn't part of the 
initrd.  If you don't have any data on the drive yet you could always 
reduce the vg so that it is no longer included.  You could also recreate 
your initrd to include the driver for the pci card.

-Shad
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