-- Yuliy Minchev <yuliy@mobiltel.bg>
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Steven Lembark wrote:
> I have installed Red Hat Linux 8.0. I've made volume group (rootvg)
> from /dev/md1 (which is raid1). I've put my /boot on /dev/md0.
>
> As you already have noticed - I have two disks.
> After installation I'm making new partiotion /dev/sdb5 i.e.
> And if I change its to type to 8e after reboot kernel panics.
> If I change type of this partition to something different - the system
> boots fine.
>
> I cannot understand where can be the problem.
> I have to say that I made the same configuration on this machine and
> everything was ok. But now I cannot see any difference.
sdb5 => sub-partition. Are you accidentally carving out
a piece of an existing PV? For example, if you had partitioned
the disk into /dev/sdb[1234] when it was built with sdb4 taking
up most of the device as 8e (i.e., for LVM), then adding sdb5
w/in the area of sdb4 would certianly break things -- and scramble
your LV's during pvcreate on the new partition.
I have
/dev/sdb1 /boot (member of md0,raid1)
/dev/sdb1 member of md1, raid1, on md1 is my volume group
/dev/sdb3 fat32
/dev/sbd4 extend partion
/dev/sdb5 is defined as 8e within sdb4
Sorry, but I did not understand your point :(
One thing people have zapped themselves with in the past
is something like:
/dev/sdb4 == one partition
/dev/sdb5 == another partition whose space is
contained w/in /dev/sdb4
pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb4;
vgcreate vg00 /dev/sdb4;
lvcretate ... vg00;
<later in time>
pvcreate -ff /dev/sdb5;
vgcreate vg01 /dev/sdb5;
lvcreate ... vg01;
at this point the creation of vg01 has overwritten
data in vg00 becuase the partition /dev/sda5 uses
disk realestate contained within /dev/sda4. This is
a matter purely caused by having moultiple partitions
w/in the same spindle.
That is why I wondered if you had made the mistake
of creating a partition w/in an already-existing
partition which was used as a PV at the time when
your new partition was created and used.
--
Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647
+1 773 252 1080
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