Old Fart <rascal.jumper-747@cox.net> wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > I'm seeing almost immediate, perfectly repeatable hard lockups in > > 2.6.15-rc5 and 2.6.15-rc5-mm3, when using sata_mv, RAID, and LVM together. > > > FWIW, I have a setup similar to yours with Intel ich5 and sata promise, > software raid5 PVs and root partitions on LVs. During the install of > etch I had to go to terminal 2 during the partitioning process to get > the raid devices started and then do lvm vgscan, etc, so the partitioner > properly saw the LVs. Even so, a recent netinst of etch failed using > this method and borked one of my arrays. An earlier etch CD install > worked ok with the fiddling done in TTY2. I have seen the same > characteristics when installing other distros (Fedora 5, XOSLinuxPC > (really hard to do), Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora 4, Mandriva) not starting > the raid sets and then not being able to initialize the LVs and have had > to use the TTY2 approach. A notable exception was SuSE which did it > right from the start. Gentoo is really hard to do, I had to hack the > initrd to get the raid nodes made and run vgscan, vgchange, etc. Good > luck!! It's not an install problem. The system's up and running, I just added some more hardware. I can make the RAIDs fine and the LVM components fine, but when I use them together the system hangs. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky _______________________________________________ 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/
