On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Neil Macvicar wrote: > A few notes I missed: This ramdisk I made myself. You can mount it on > loopback after untarring it to examine it's contents. It's size sould be set > to 8192. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil Macvicar" <neilm@foobarhouse.com> > To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:15 PM > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to boot with LVM? > > > > If it's any help, I have put my initrd on public ftp at > > fruits.foobarhouse.com in the LVM directory. It's served me well for as > long > > as I've been using LVM'ed root. > > > > I'm currently using LVM 0.9.1beta8. The past week I have tried very many times to get Linux mount the root on my LVM disk: but whenever the linuxrc on the initrd finishes, the kernel finds itself without a root. Switching root is supposed to happen automatically, but that mechanism is obsoleted: instead, we are supposed to do a pivot_root and chroot (see /usr/src/linux/Documents/initrd.txt). neither method works. I suspect a kernel problem now. I suppose I should go back to an earlier kernel version, and maybe to a 0.9 LVM. Can you please advice what kernel you use? Additionally, would you try out the latest kernel (2.4.10-pre8) and LVM (1.0.1-rc2) to see if that works for you? Thanx, -- #>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@*^@) Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters NL-1062 KD nr 149 tel. +31-204080204 Amsterdam e-mail tpeters@xs4all.nl
