On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:49:24 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:17:01 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/ > > Something in here broke LVM support - an initrd that has worked fine for > quite some time suddenly couldn't mount /dev/VolGroup00/root so we get the > infamous "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" when we > fall off the end of the initrd and haven't pivoted to the real disk. > > It finds the disk OK: > > [ 81.202310] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) > [ 81.214466] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off > [ 81.226467] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > [ 81.238436] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA > [ 81.250780] sda: sda1 sda2 > [ 75.396119] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk > > but then the lvm command says it can't find the volume group VolGroup00 (which > is actually sda2 - sda1 is a small /boot partition, rest of disk is LVM). > > A quick look at the rc4-mm1 announcement doesn't have any obviously tempting > patch names to start at, so it looks like it's time to play mm-bisect. It may > take me a day or two, as I have some time management issues this week... > OK, thanks. First step would be to eliminate rewrite-rd.patch: maybe the ramdisk driver in which that initrd resides is bust. After that, agk-dm-dm-*.patch are of course the ones to look at. Please keep dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx cc'ed. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
