> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:31:08AM -0000, Ben Holness wrote: > > I should also mention that I ran lvmcreate_initrd with the > -D option, but > > that didn't help. > please try > mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd `uname -r` > instead of lvmcreate_initrd and tell me if it works OK, this time I get a different error: **** VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Red Hat nash version 3.1.6-mdk starting Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 19 mounting ext2 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. **** So it looks like it got further, but has found a new stumbling block! I also had a look at the man page for initrd and noticed that there is a --fstab option, which I might need to use, as my current setup is as follows: /dev/hda1 - boot partition (mounted on /boot) 14Mb /dev/hda6 - install partition (mounted on /) 2.5Gb /dev/hda4 - LVM partition, contains logical volumes for /, /usr, /var, /home and /tmp. When I boot to hda6, I mount the LVM partitions in the relevant directories, within /new-disk. This means that the fstab that is relevant to LVM exists in /new-disk/ROOT/etc/fstab when I boot to hda6, which is currently the only configuration that is working. So I tried running mkinitrd -v --fstab /new-disk/ROOT/etc/fstab -f /boot/initrd `uname -r`, which gives me this error: **** VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Red Hat nash version 3.1.6-mdk starting loading lvm-mod module LVM version LVM 0.9.1_beta7(ish) by Heinz Mauelshagen (20 June 2001) lvm -- Module successfully initialized Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Creating root device Configuring LVM vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group vgchange -- no volume groups found Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext2 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. **** Interesting that it finds no volume groups. A vgdisplay from when I boot to the install partition gives the following: [root@firewall root]# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name firewallvg VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG # 0 MAX LV 256 Cur LV 11 Open LV 1 MAX LV Size 255.99 GB Max PV 256 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 53.22 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 13624 Alloc PE / Size 6294 / 24.59 GB Free PE / Size 7330 / 28.63 GB VG UUID gIGwr8-vA6U-XU9j-oS5s-jQI1-sWTX-TKL22S My guess is that I have not copied something (that is LVM related) from the original partition to the logical partition that LVM requires to work? Could this be something in The copy command(s) that I used were: cd / && echo cp -a `/bin/ls -1Ab | egrep -v "^new-disk$|^proc$|^home$|^usr$|^tmp$|^var$|^Webserver$|^opt$|^boot$"` /new-disk/ROOT | sh cp -a /home/* /new-disk/home/ cp -a /usr/* /new-disk/usr/ cp -a /tmp/* /new-disk/tmp/ cp -a /var/* /new-disk/var/ cp -a /opt/* /new-disk/opt/ cp -a /Webserver /new-disk/Webserver I then had a look around and copied /proc/lvm to /new-disk/ROOT/proc/lvm and tried again, but that didn't help. Any further thoughts are welcomed! Cheers, Ben
