I have had a root-lvm for some time now and I have been attempting to convert my root-lvm to a standard /dev/hdxx root. Unfortunately it has not gone smoothly. My host system is Gentoo. I used a live-cd (knoppix) mounted the old lvm-root (/dev/sys/root) and the new root (/dev/hde5) and from within the mounted lvm-root I ran find -xdev | cpio -pvmd /mnt/root Then I mounted the various other partitions within the new root, /mnt/root such as mount /dev/hde3 /mnt/root/boot mount -t proc proc /mnt/root/proc mount /dev/sys/usr /mnt/root/usr etc... I then "chroot /mnt/root" from within chroot I went to /boot and tried to mkinitrd mkinitrd initrd-2.4.20-xfs-r3.gz 2.4.20-xfs-r3 but it failed with the message along the lines of: /dev/null permission denied. I tried several ways to get around that including chmod 666 /dev/null but it failed. So I tossed the live-cd and booted into gentoo with 2.4.20-xfs-r3 S (single user mode) from within I reset up chroot as above and was able to mkinitrd. I then setup lilo.conf and changed to root=/dev/hde5 on the default "linux" and created links within /boot with initrd > initrd-2.4.20-xfs-r3.gz and vmlinuz > vmlinuz-2.4.20-xfs-r3. I ran lilo and it looked fine and rebooted. Unfortunately I got a kernel panic. The first sign of something wrong was when it could not write in the partition table (in /dev maybe) and then I got the message that I should try "initrd= " at kernel boot. Any ideas where I may have gone wrong? My understanding is that lvm-root is much more difficult with lvm2, esp since it is not directly part of 2.6 and I am wanting to setup an easier way to convert to lvm2 so that I could go back and forth between 2.4 and 2.6. -- SI Reasoning si@mindspring.com gpg public key ftp://ftp.p-p-i.com/pub/si-mindspring-pubkey.asc The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein Preventive War is like committing suicide for fear of death. - Otto Von Bismarck
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