Bah - I guess I should have pointed you at the fedora mkinitrd - it might have saved you the hassle. :(
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/mkinitrd-3.5.21-1.i386.rpm is the current version AFAIK. I think this will work better with RH9 systems than the other one (which was originally built around debian)
Possibly. I can't get it to work with either 2.6.5 or my 2.4 image, though:
valde@peter:~> rpm -q mkinitrd mkinitrd-3.5.21-1 valde@peter:~> sudo mkinitrd ost.img 2.6.5 No module raid1 found for kernel 2.6.5, aborting. valde@peter:~> sudo mkinitrd ost.img 2.4.20-20.9custom pvscan -- LVM driver/module not loaded?
(While I'm running in a 2.6 kernel. module raid1 is not not found for 2.6.5 because I've built it into the kernel now. I can't be bothered to test it as a module at this point)
I've created a new version (incl. svn diff) of the script here: http://wwww.XXXXXXXXX/postings/lvm2/
Wups, what happened with the extra 'w' (4 in all)? It does work, though...
K - so if the fedora mkinitrd doesn't work for people using RH9, they can try that one. :) Thanks!
To make as few changes as possible, RH9 users will have to edit it and uncomment these lines
INITRDSIZE=4096 INITRDINODES=5000
and run it with the -d option, such as in # lvm2create_initrd.sh -d 2.6.5
Also, I forgot to mention something weird. If I attempt to boot my old 2.4 kernel, fsck complains. Booting with kernel option " fastboot" gets me past the fsck point, all the way to the final login screen. However, in the 2.4 kernel, I no longer have keyboard or mouse support. But I can ssh into it from outside. Rebooting again into 2.6 also stops at fsck, so the " fastboot" is required *again*. When running in 2.6, I then run "lvm vgmknodes" and then it can boot in 2.6 fsck and all - no problemo. But it seems I've passed the point of no-return-to-2.4.
Later,
Peter
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