I'm having problems creating an mkinitrd image where I want the / directory to be lvm2. Setup: o Running Debian Sarge using stock 2.6.7-k7-smp w/ udev; per docs, the Debian initrd-tools support lvm2 on root o Volume group named "vg" created from /dev/md1 (which is RAID 5) o Logical volume "root" on "vg" => result: a lvm2 device called "/dev/vg/root" o Mounted /dev/vg/root on /mnt and copied over my current / partition o Tried to create an initrd image using /dev/vg/root as / and I get the following: portland:~# chroot /mnt mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7-1-k7-smp-LVM /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: neither /dev/fd or /proc/self/fd exists! Try mounting the proc filesystem: mount -tproc none /proc portland:~# chroot /mnt mount -tproc none /proc portland:~# chroot /mnt mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7-1-k7-smp-LVM /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/vg/root is not a block device Using mkinitrd in a chroot environment, instead of with "-r", may be Debian specific. In any case, I'm stuck now -- any ideas? Help much appreciated. Thanks, Richard p.s. I know /boot should not be on the lvm2 device; my plan was to move /boot to it's own partition, /dev/md0 (setup as RAID 1), as soon as I had the initrd image. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
