I am trying to boot into LVM and am having some problems. Here is a summary: I have a server with a hardware RAID system (which provides logical SCSI disks) which I want to have running as early as possible in the boot process. I cannot boot directly into it, so I have a small (32MB) IDE-FLASH device onto which I wish to put a standard Linux boot partition. My plan is to install LVM onto the (large) RAID system and use logical volumes for "/", "/var/", etc. I did a "stock" Debian install and it all worked fine. The boot partition is on the IDE-FLASH disk and all the other partitions are via LVM on logical volumes from the 4TB RAID array. Unfortunately, the kernel is 2.6.8. I need to run 2.6.14 so I built up a new kernel image using the original sources and a load of patches that I needed. This kernel image works fine on other machines, but it will not boot on this machine. It complains that it cannot mount "mapper/root" when the Grub line is "root=/dev/mapper/root". My guess is that LVM isn't being loaded/started/configured correctly at boot time or that there is some problem with "/dev"... Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks, Roger _______________________________________________ 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/
