On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:59 -0600, Kirk Korver wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using FC4 as a base for an embedded instrument. When the instrument > goes out the door, it has a 256 MB flash card for the hard drive, and a > Pentium 4M motherboard. Also, there will never be a keyboard, nor a > monitor. > > During development, there is a SATA hard drive with all of FC4 on it, > and it is currently using LVM. > > My task is to prepare a bootable, flash card. Next remove the hard drive > and have the system work. > > Here is what I do: > 1) fdisk /dev/hdc (the flash card is hdc) > 2) In fdisk, create a single large linux partition (don't need any swap > space) and active this partition. > > Create the file system > 3) mke2fs /dev/hdc1 > 4) tune2fs -c 0 /dev/hdc1 > > 5)Copy over the files I need (I'll give a set if you want, but its > enough to make linux happy). > 6)copy over my custom rc.sysinit, since I want to have exact control > over how the system boots > > 7) Install grub. I'll give the details: > grup --no-floppy > device (hd0) /dev/hdc > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) > > 8) Grup is happy. And says so > 9) Edit grub.conf so the kernel is at /boot/..... > 10) Edit the fstab to mount /dev/hdc1 on / > > Turn the power off, and remove the SATA hard drive: > > Now the problem > Grub starts, and finds my kernel > The kernel starts. > Redhat nash starts. Then I get the following messages. > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... > Aborting - please provide new pathname for what used to be /dev/hdc1 > No volume groups found > Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00" > ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally with value 5 > ext3: No journal on filesystem on hdc1 > Mount: error 22 mounting ext3 > ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 > error dup2'ing fc of 0 to 0 > error dup2'ing fc of 0 to 1 > error dup2'ing fc of 0 to 2 > Switchroot: mount failed:22 > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > > > I see it is asking about VolGroup00. This is LVM stuff. I don't want LVM > on the card. What is really weird is that all of this is happening > before the rc.sysinit is started. I don't find any command line options > to the kernel to turn LVM off. All of the LVM options are "modules" when > I built my kernel. > > So my question is quite simply, > What do I have to do so that LVM is NOT used?? Any other options? > > --Kirk > > > Kirk Korver Sounds like it's executing the init script that runs vgscan on the initrd. If you don't need lvm then edit the script and remove it. -- Luciano Chavez <lnx1138@us.ibm.com> _______________________________________________ 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/
