> Hi Everyone > > I have a old IBM server 320. I need to create a volume group as there is > not > enough space to perform upgrades etc. > As I can only only do a text install and you cannot create Logical Volumes > in the text install, i have installed the OS on one of the 2 gig drives in > the machine. I then go about trying to create an LVM etc. (Please remember > that these are SCSI drives) > I manage to create a volume group on the remaining 2 drives and then > create > a logical volume on these. I then mount this as an ext3 and copy the > entire > os over using find / -xdev | cpio -pvmd /mnt > This all works fine. I then run lvmcreate_initrd to create a new ramdisk. > I > go to my boot which is on a different partition and edit grub.conf so that > it reflects the ramdisk and i change the kernel parameter to point to the > logical volume ie. /dev/vg1/root > I also edit the fstab so that the /dev/vg1/root is mounted as /. > I then reboot and get the following error: > vgscan -- no volume groups found > VFS: Cannot open root device "vg1/root" or 00:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic > > When I boot this ramdisk I don't see it loading the SCSI modules anywhere. > I'm sure this has something to do with this. How does the ramdisk store > the > modules for this? > > Please help. This is very frustrating and very urgent. I am not sure what > I'm doing wrong. > > Thanks > Brendon > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > > The views expressed in this email are, unless otherwise stated, those of > the author and not those > of the FirstRand Banking Group or its management. The information in this > e-mail is confidential > and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone > else is unauthorised. > If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or any action taken or > omitted in reliance on this, is prohibited and may be unlawful. > Whilst all reasonable steps are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity > of information and data > transmitted electronically and to preserve the confidentiality thereof, no > liability or > responsibility whatsoever is accepted if information or data is, for > whatever reason, corrupted > or does not reach its intended destination. > Try to add 'alias block-major-58 lvm-mod' and 'alias char-major-109 lvm-mod' to your modules.conf then mkinitrd /boot/initrd-KERNELVER.img KERNELVER --with=lvm-mod That should make sure that both LVM and any SCSI module gets loaded at boot time... I can't tell you for sure that this will fix your problem, but I would say its a good place to start! Hope this helps Thomas
