Hello, First I'd like to take the time to say how much I like LVM. Keep up the excellent work. That said, I am having a bit of a problem. Let me set the stage for you. I installed LVM when I installed my distro (Gentoo, www.gentoo.org). The boot CD does not use devfs but I do use it after I've insatlled the distro. I have my root inside the LVM along with all my other partitions besides /boot. I haven't experienced any problems until now. I had been using kernel 2.4.18 and am downgrading to 2.4.17 because of some patches that I would like to use. When rebooting with the new kernel the messages on the screen seem to indicate that root file system (reiserfs, /dev/vgroup0/root) was mounted successfully read-only. I get a message about devfs do_symlink_root (I'm not 100% sure on that, I didn't write it down) that fails and then i get a change root error. If these errors are needed verbatium, I can get them. After this I get an "Invalid Operand" from the kernel and a CPU register dump. Followed by an "kernel killed init". This was all from memory, but I beleive it to be correct. I guess the first question I should ask is if this sounds like a kernel problem or lvmcreate_initrd script problem. I have tried running lvmcreate_initrd from my devfs enabled system (using the 2.4.18 kernel) and from the Gentoo Boot CD (using a non devfs, 2.4.17 kernel) with no luck. I have browsed the archives and found a few hints but nothing that solved my problem. I would appreciate *any* help that could resolve my issues. And agagin, great work, keep it up. :) Thanks in advance. Regards, Doug Miller _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
