On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:11 -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > Thomas J. Baker wrote: > > I just installed Fedora 9 alpha on an x86_64 server (several times > > actually) and after a seemingly uneventful install, it won't boot saying > > it can't find any volume groups. There is nothing unusual about the > > server. In fact, I installed Fedora 8 by mistake (too many net install > > choices) in the last couple of days and it worked fine . I am using an > > LVM structure made by Fedora 8 a few months ago but I'm reformatting all > > LVs in it. I initially thought it was related to trying to test ext4 but > > I just did a very plain install without ext4 and that also failed. The > > console doesn't show any notable error related to the SCSI disks but > > fails when it can't find any logical volumes. > > > > I've tried installing from F9A and from current Rawhide but keep getting > > this same error. I've also disabled selinux by adding selinux=0 to the > > kernel command line but that didn't help. > > > > Any ideas? Kernel bug? LVM bug? Initrd bug? > > Dunno, but I had this problem using an upstream 2.6.24 kernel built with the > 2.6.24-9 rawhide kernel .config, using rawhide initscripts, nash, and > kernel-utils. It worked fine with the F8 kernel .config and the rawhide > userspace packages. The rawhide kernel itself boots though. I haven't had time > to track it down. > > -- Chris > It's almost like it's starting the lvscan before the scsi scan is done. I get messages about finding the physical disks before the lvscan but don't get the messages about setting up sda and sdb until after the lvscan fails. Could be just a console buffering problem though. Or x86_64 since the last message is something along the lines of scsi_scan_0 used greatest stack depth: 4904 bytes left. Thanks, tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
