Goswin von Brederlow wrote: : "Dean S. Messing" <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: : : > I'm having the devil of a time trying to boot off : > an "LVM-on-RAID0" device on my Fedora 7 system. : > : > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with : > (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire : > installation onto it, modifying the copied fstab to reflect where : > the new "/" is. : > : > I created a new initrd with: : > : > mkinitrd --preload raid0 --with=raid0 initrd_raid.img 2.6.22.5-76-fc7 : > : > The LVM modules are getting included in the initrd "for free" because : > I'm currently running on a non-raid LV-managed file system. : > : > I added a stanza to grub.conf for the new initrd.img. : > : > But the thing won't complete the boot process. : >>From the boot messages it appears to not : > be starting the array, so when it goes to scan for LVs it doesn't : > find the one that's sitting on top of the array where root lives. : : Maybe your lvm.conf filters it out or the devices are missing to : access it? I am not at a point in my meagre understanding to fool with it. When I unpack the initrd, I see the raid modules but nothing in the "init" script that activtates the array. The lvm.conf file is the default one.. : > Are there instructions for how to make this work? I've googled for : > a couple of hours, tried a bunch of stuff, but can't get it to : > work. From what I've read I suspect I must hand-tweek the "init" : > file in the initrd. : > : > Surely there is "a right way" to do this. : : Install debian, live happily ever after. :) No comment. : By the way, why bother with raid0? lvm can do striping on its own : saving you one layer alltogether and you already have lvm working : right. Why needlessly add problems to your working system? I'm experimenting (and learning) right now. I'm aware of the striped lv option, which I will also try. Thanks. By the way the current system is working with LVM because at installation time I told it to use LVM on the installed system. Dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
